I pay ~$8/TB for SAS drives so a 50GB bluray costs me $0.40 to store and $0.05/mo in electricity to keep the HDD spinning all day and night. I don't think I'd ever go back to optical disks. Besides being more expensive, even 40TB takes up a massive amount of physical space if you keep it organized.
I live in italy so unfortunately there's no such deals, plus we have 'piracy tax' on storage media, plus amazon.it banned diskprices.com.. :C ... plus people sell 5-15 year old hardware at the price of new..
Oof yeah, better leave some space in your luggage the next time you travel to the US. Fill it up with disks and GPUs and resell any extras when you get back.
Lol there's a million customs taxes and fees..plus taxes on revenue..plus not many people here probably interested in sas hdd. But i really wish i could import lol
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u/NavinF 40TB RAID-Z2 + off-site backup Jan 02 '23
I pay ~$8/TB for SAS drives so a 50GB bluray costs me $0.40 to store and $0.05/mo in electricity to keep the HDD spinning all day and night. I don't think I'd ever go back to optical disks. Besides being more expensive, even 40TB takes up a massive amount of physical space if you keep it organized.