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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Not many good deals today? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by joetaxpayer@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Is it me, or does it not seem like there are many decent black Friday deals on any kind of internal storage whether it be a spinning hard drive or a solid-state device? My last drive purchase was a 16 TB Toshiba enterprise and they paid $225. Black Friday deals. Don’t even come close to this. Except, perhaps, if people are willing to shuck.

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[–] Far_Marsupial6303@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Internals and SSDs aren't as sexy as externals. "I have to open my computer and install it? I've never done that!" And unlike externals, which are a way for the manufacturers to make money off their 2nd tier stock, internals are a commodity.

Keep an eye on Cyber Monday as retailers have been saving some of their best deals for that day.

[–] joetaxpayer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Different customer base. I get that. I've used a few externals over my life, but prefer an external case with bays for multiple drives instead of the single casified external.