Phillip 6d ago

In case you’re wondering how screwed the SSD and broader storage market is:

Just last week, I bought 5 8TB WD Red Pro NAS drives on Amazon to be delivered the following week. Amazon limited me to 3 hard drives, even across multiple orders, so I used my coworker’s account to buy 2 more. I couldn’t find any other high-TBW CMR 8TB hard drives anywhere else, no matter the brand or retailer.

Less than a week later, and now Amazon says “available to ship in 1-2 days”, but “fastest delivery July 21-31”. That’s 18 WEEKS! 4 MONTHS!

Hope none of y’all were planning to buy new hard drives any time soon.

#RAMpocalypse #tech #selfhosted #selfhosting #sysadmin

Show threadampersandrew6d ago
@phillip I think I bought my drives right as the AI shortage hit them. They came in a few weeks ago, and my order was placed about a day before WD said they sold out for the year.
Show threadPhillip 6d ago
@ampersandrew Lucky you! I bought a cold spare for my homelab in December and I’m so glad I did. Seeing how hard it was to find 8TB drives for our NAS at work, I decided to go with a 4x8TB RAID 6 and a fifth 8TB as a cold spare. I think that will also end up paying off.
Show threadampersandrew5d ago
@phillip Nice. I bought 4x18TB drives for a home NAS. Maybe less demand for drives that pricey helped me out too.
Show threadPhillip 
@ampersandrew I’d say so, yeah. It’s time to hunker down and pray your existing drives don’t start failing lmao
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