Mechanical hard drives prices?

himen256 · 18 Jun 2017 at 21:07

Hi guys I'm looking to buy a new HDD for movies and music but the prices are very very high and have been for last couple of years. Any ideas what is it this time? Flood, earthquake, low supply or hight or whatever they said each time the prices when up or stay high. I just want to know if there is a reason to hold of for a bit or no need?

himen256 · 19 Jun 2017 at 22:06

My idea was to buy one drive for now to keep me save as one of my 1.5tb die so now I have that feeling in my stomach..... I was thinking of buying 6/8TB WD red with extended warranty and in September to pick up NAS and one more drive for redundancy... As I want to move all my data to new nas.. so the 4 drives I have can go to heaven.

himen256 · 22 Jun 2017 at 21:28

bledd said:
Be aware that to use a NAS, it has to wipe the drives on first use. So any data you have on an existing HDD will be wiped when you set up a NAS. They don't use NTFS, they use EXT4 or BTRFS.

I think I will pick up a 8TB and in September two more with nas. Would it be posible to raid two driver same size 8TB then copy all my staff from one 8TB to two drives and add my first drive to raid?

himen256 · 23 Jun 2017 at 23:01

Doogles said:
If you have MM access it can be worth picking them up used.

Not as of yet

Still I would never buy mechanical hard drive used without warrant...