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recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca Joined: 2024-09-14

Pros:

$369.99 CAD before taxes and shipping. (comes out to $0.020555/1GB)
CMR drive instead of SMR
5 year warranty from Toshiba
512 MB buffer cache

Currently (as of Dec 19, 2024) this is the cheapest 3.5" hard drive that's best for value.

The next closest in terms of value would be either the 8TB Seagate Barracuda Compute, or the 16TB Toshiba N300 Pro depending on your preference of same Price/GB with lower capital costs, or higher likelihood of availability for additional purchases >1.

The 12TB Seagate IronWolf is disqualified for this value based discussion as it's sold by Amazon's Refurb site from a 3rd party with an additional $107.99 for delivery charges.

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)