Re:Are Hard Drives Getting Better?
by t-3 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:38AM
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Personally, I buy the drives with the best $/storage ratio. Right now that seems to be ~3-6TB drives. Many PC enclosures and motherboards can fit 8-12 drives, fill it up with the cheapest stuff you're willing to spend money on. It will probably break even or be cheaper than the larger drives.
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It depends on the use case. As with CPUs, I tend not to buy the top-end but it may make sense to just buy for expansion over time. I think my RAID-1 Synology drives are 8TB. But mostly just use external enclosures these days anyway. Pretty much don't build PCs any longer.