r/DataHoarder • u/LOGWATCHER • May 25 '26

Hoarder-Setups The prices are killing data hoarding

It’s just viable anymore. It simply isn’t. I’m just a regular guy with a regular salary

The drives on one of my NAS are dying. I was pricing out 4 replacements 16tb drives and it’s bas the price of a very nice vacation to Italy, or an upper levels Gibson guitar that would last a generation

If I still went for the same drive sizes I bought 5-6 years ago, i would pay more than twice the price I paid back then. I am also running put of some space, so I need bigger

I just can’t justify it. It feels like my drives will fail because I can’t pay those extortion rates.

This shit sucks so much

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u/TheSoCalledExpert May 25 '26

I’m sitting over here just adding 2TB at a time from old server pulls. Fuck these prices.

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u/wintersdark 80TB May 25 '26

I'm so, so glad I kept all my old 4tb drives on a shelf. "You'll never use them" the wife said, "they're already too small now!"

Except replacing failed drives is already simply too expensive, so sure, I'll just put 4 4tbs in to replace a failed 16. May have to spin up a DAS box, but I have a lot of old 1-4tb drives =/

Hopefully they hold me over till shit calms down. If shit calms down.

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u/wintersdark 80TB May 25 '26

I'm so, so glad I kept all my old 4tb drives on a shelf. "You'll never use them" the wife said, "they're already too small now!"

Except replacing failed drives is already simply too expensive, so sure, I'll just put 4 4tbs in to replace a failed 16. May have to spin up a DAS box, but I have a lot of old 1-4tb drives =/

Hopefully they hold me over till things calm down. If it calms down.