• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Cheaper, but it’s still not cheap and I really don’t have a whole lot of disposable income rn.

      • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        You can get 12tb renewed drives for $100. A lot will even have decent warranties. If you’re lying for like, 3 streaming services, and cancel all three in favor of saving your own media locally it pays for itself quickly. Especially if you download stuff from like HBO Max.

        This is doubly true now that streaming services have started raising prices and pay walling content.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      really large hdds are still really expensive, the prices have somewhat plateaued at this rate. Nobody really needs such massive drives, and their isn’t exactly an incentive to produce larger drives, especially now that everyone seems to be moving to ssds.

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        5 months ago

        They aren’t though, price per GB on renewed storage with warranty is less than 10 cents a GB. That’s insanely low compared to just five years ago.