used/refurb is perfect if you’ve got a raid setup and they have some sort of warranty. serverparts has 5 year warranty on most of their drives, and reasonably priced. upgraded to 4x 20TB last year when I upgraded my truenas and Plex server, haven’t had issues.
That’s nice but prices haven’t moved for more than 5 years.
My on the go music library 512 GB SanDisk MicroSD from 2 months ago had the same price as my first 16 GB SanDisk MicroSD I put in my HTC Wildfire S.
Has nothing to do with this, but every time someone mentions memory prices, I can’t help but think of this.
I paid over $100 for my first 128MB USB drive around 2002.
I can’t remember what I paid for my 40mb MFM hard drive in 1992. I kind of want to say it was around like $200. ?
The Wildfire S is more than 10 years old tho
But we do have a much better organized second hand market, so there’s that. /s
This is funny because my last 3 drives have all been used. $/TB has definitely gone up since COVID for new drives.
2 for me, manufacturer refurbs, didn’t say I disliked it, but as per OP, it sure would be nice if prices moved in the right direction.
used/refurb is perfect if you’ve got a raid setup and they have some sort of warranty. serverparts has 5 year warranty on most of their drives, and reasonably priced. upgraded to 4x 20TB last year when I upgraded my truenas and Plex server, haven’t had issues.