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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by rektide on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:35PM (#31839980)
It's been a year since prices recovered from the earlier madness & got back to where they were. It's not totally stable, but prices as I see them have been going slowly down since.

I personally have some Exos 16TB's. There's a decent price history available[1] reaching back to mid-2019. Make sure to tick on "3rd party new". These aren't going to be the best prices available in many cases, but it's reasonably indicative.

[1] https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07SPFPKF4

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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by Melatonic on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:02PM (#31841136)
I always buy enterprise drives - much higher reliability and lifetime and usually I have found they benchmark higher. They are also way heavier and almost always use better bearings on all surfaces. Some people complain they are super loud but the three types I have randomly purchased over the years have been just as quiet as any other spinning disk (as in I do not notice the sound at all once its inside my desktop)
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