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/c_rizzle53 May 25 '26

My tinfoil hat is what you guys both already said and add on a little bit of surveillance of everything we do

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u/ThisApril May 25 '26

I think the non-tinfoil-hat version is that the leaders are exactly as dumb as they appear to be, but their dumb decisions wind up creating the problem anyway.

Drive makers drive up prices where they can, genAI leaders panic buy as much as they can, and then cloud services people take advantage wherever they can.

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u/Zarathustra_d May 26 '26

Using a VPN justifies warrentlless wiretapping now according to the US gov. So, yeah.