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Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.

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[–] proper@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago (12 children)

the drives I’ve purchased from them in the past have been great considering they’re used server parts.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

considering they’re used server parts.

That really should be in the title...

I dunno, I'm one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.

So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. ~~But for like $20 more you don't have to worry about losing the data on it.~~

Edit:

Apparently prices just haven't changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not to sound snarky or anything, but since when do prices go down? If people were willing to pay the inflated price, there's no incentive for them not to make that the new standard.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The entire existence of computers outside the last five years...

I agree to some extent, but even before then hardware was getting expensive thanks to stuff like the Bitcoin mining craze. Harddrives have been getting cheaper on a dollar per TB basis for a long time (as they should), but I remember the days when it was cheaper to build a gaming PC than to buy a new console, and those days are long gone. And after COVID hit, greedflation set in to declare what the new normal is.

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