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pcunite on Nov 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later

I personally (for home use) held off buying drives for two years, found out I did not really need so much space and discovered SSDs would do the trick.

dublinben on Nov 26, 2013 [–]

Same here. I bought my last 2 TB for $80 shortly before the crisis, and was able to scrape by at 90% capacity until 4 TB drives became cheap enough.

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