-hh
2024-01-05 15:22:45 UTC
Found a pretty good deal on Western Digital 3.5" SATA Hard Drives this past week; sale ends on 7 Jan 2024.
SKU: WD142KFGX ... is a "Red Pro NAS Hard Drive" and SMR (not CMR), but it is still a lot of capacity on a single spindle, which makes Time Machine easy:
<https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD2002FFSX>
Price? Buy two (2) 14TB HDDS for just $440 (+tax) ...
... works out to $220 per drive, or <$16 per TB.
Not the most frugal per TB, but the sweet spot has been for lower capacities (last I checked, around 8TB).
-hh
SKU: WD142KFGX ... is a "Red Pro NAS Hard Drive" and SMR (not CMR), but it is still a lot of capacity on a single spindle, which makes Time Machine easy:
<https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD2002FFSX>
Price? Buy two (2) 14TB HDDS for just $440 (+tax) ...
... works out to $220 per drive, or <$16 per TB.
Not the most frugal per TB, but the sweet spot has been for lower capacities (last I checked, around 8TB).
-hh