It used to be that 14TB was the sweet spot for recertified price per TB. After looking around, it seems like it’s moved up a bit, at least on ServerPartDeals and goHardDrive, even 22 TBs are floating around $14/TB.

I feel like eventually I could migrate all of my 14TB disks to 22TB and save a lot of heat. Of course, I’d need to upgrade my two parity disks first, which would currently cost around $677 after tax. I’m curious as to what parity sizes everyone else is rocking.

I’m also kind of realizing that this probably doesn’t need to be a post, but I’m gunna post it anyway in case someone wants to enable my data hoarding.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I’m strictly considering WD HC drives only.

  • ComradeMiao@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    If I was gonna upgrade from 14 I would go as big as possible so I didn’t have to do it again. Price per terabyte doesn’t matter if you upgrade more than once. Also, array size doesn’t matter if you don’t have a backup server as well

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah. I just don’t know if I can bite the bullet to spend $300ish more for 4 TB (or technically 2TB when used for parity). Recertified 24TB WD drives are slightly more than $500 on SPD right now, and that’s the biggest size (for WD drives)