vegetaAI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year
Buy used
Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they’re close to failing.
Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won’t see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.
Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.
I think people are downvoting because this statement of “buy used” simplifies things to kinda put it on people who want to purchase drives and aren’t data center customers. HONESTLY, even buying used hardware, you’re going to be seeing a spike in prices because available stock is going to be what it is and the demand is only going to grow.
Also, buying used for something you want to protect your data is ALWAYS going to be a risky proposition, even if HDD tech and improved and become stupid reliable.
ALSO ALSO, there are scammers everywhere. When you buy used, you take a higher risk of the seller shipping a box of rocks.
ALSO ALSO ALSO, you don’t actually know what a drive’s been through until you get it.
… And we can keep going but the point is offering a simplistic solution to a big structural problem like the supply chain and corporate greed running amok is just pointing the finger at consumers when, at the end of the day, they didn’t start this mess.