<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, at 13:34, Anton Avramov via kwlug-disc wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Does any of you have recommendation there to get disks with lets say at <br></div><div>least 6T capacity at reasonable price?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>I'm going through this right now. I've been recording a lot of video over the last few years, and need more storage. Buying 4x new 8TB drives at $250-300 per drive isn't too appealing, though.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I just bought some used drives on ebay. It's a big discount, but also a big risk. Supposedly no issues in SMART, and power-on hours seemed reasonable. Hopefully it works out (they're currently shipping).<br></div><div><br></div><div>The bigger question as local storage grows is how/where to back it up.<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig91988184"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature"><b>Chris Irwin</b><br></div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">email: <a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a></span><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"> web: <a href="https://chrisirwin.ca">https://chrisirwin.ca</a></span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>