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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/CodeSlave9000 on 2026-06-10 02:22:55+00:00.

This is not where I expected to be this year... re-installed eight ten-year-old WD Red 8TB drives, the youngest with almost 40,000 hrs spinning on it. I had retired these drives four years ago from duty in a primary NAS, and shortly thereafter retried that NAS box too (old Xeon D CPU) for newer technology.

If you had told me that in 2026 I'd be bringing those drives back I wouldn't have believed you. HDD prices have spiked before due to specific conditions, but this is purely artificial. A quick inventory of RAM, HDD and SSD's that I own puts the value in the hundred's of thousands of dollars in today's numbers. And I'm not even happy about that.