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Back in 2006 or 2007, I remember buying a 200GB external HD for $250 and thinking that was a great deal.

By about 1995/6 or so I had been running my entire office on 4MB for a while. Thought I had as much as I'd ever need....

Back in the 80s it was $150 to upgrade my Atari 800xl to 128k of ram. A 20mb hard drive for my ST was almost $300.

I told my boss to buy a bunch of these when it was $199. He said the city didn’t want to set up an account with Best Buy. So when our server eventually fails, our data is kaput. Not my problem I guess.

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Originally posted by redstone:

while I never used one, I do have a 60's era cake platter in my collection.

Like this? I worked for dec (Digital Equipment) in the early 1990s. We used these.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by redstone:

while I never used one, I do have a 60's era cake platter in my collection.

Like this? I worked for dec (Digital Equipment) in the early 1990s. We used these.

Yes, that is the exact one. I meant to take a picture before I left work yesterday.

Also, it looks like 14tb, is back to $199 at Best Buy this morning

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Originally posted by redstone:
Also, it looks like 14tb, is back to $199 at Best Buy this morning

Damnit! Sucked in by my own thread! I just bought another one. Now that's three. Good thing this NAS only has four bays, but now that 6TB sitting in the last bay will look out of place. Must. Resist.

BTW, be careful if buying 20TB drives. They are likely SMR drives. I don't know how that will run in a NAS. It could be that they are so optimized for this application that it won't matter, with lots of cache, like in the WD Ultrastar or Seagate EXOS series. IDK, just something to consider.

I put that third 14TB shucked WD drive in my array. It is a four disk array, so this was the third drive I have changed. That gave it 14TB-14TB-14TB-6TB in a SHR array (a type of RAID 5). It was slooooooow to rebuild, like about three days. The first two took about 14 hours each.

I thought perhaps I'd gotten a bum drive, but no, that doesn't seem to be the case. The Internet says that a mixed drive size can really slow down a rebuild. I happened across this deal:
ST14000NM0018 A Seagate Exos 14TB refurbished drive for $239.
The Exos is the Cadillac of drives, a real enterprise class drive. I thought the refurb might be a server pull, but as it turns out, the drive came with a refurbished label from Seagate, and the SMART status showed zero hours on the unit, so it looks like it comes from Seagate. I replaced the 6TB Ironwolf drive, and it is rebuilding the array fast. I mean, like instead of taking three days, the array is going to be rebuilt before midnight. Start to finish in five hours.

I'm very pleased. The shucked drives seem great, because I think they are WD Ultrastars, and now a Seagate EXOS. I'm in high cotton now with every drive in the array being an enterprise class 14TB. I'll have 38TB of available storage in a few hours, with no smaller drives to slow down the array.

The references to DEC bring back memories- Dad worked for Digital from '68-'90 in the Toledo/Detroit area.