alt Hacker News> …comes in 8TB ($699) or 20TB ($899) HDD configurations—neither of which includes the required SSD.
The 8TB version seems like very poor value for money. For comparison, Amazon is selling 24 TB Seagate Exos drives for $799.
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But you have to buy a pair, so the price is double.
You need a pair because if one HDD starts failing, you need to recover the data. Reading a 20 TB HDD takes an entire day of continuous reads, and a failing HDD can't handle that, so you need RAID 1 or a backup.
Make sure it's not amazon.DE as those are usually scam.
> Amazon is selling 24 TB Seagate Exos drives for $799
Might be a scam, you might get a used or a refurb drive. I wouldn't' trust Amazon for such purchases, if the price feels too good.
nice find! ServerPartDeals seems to be cheaper than Amazon tho. Sadly Amazon blocks agentic price watching but https://instinct.com/ has otherwise been great at watching HD prices.
I will never buy electronics off of Amazon ever again. Whether they’ve fixed their mingling or not, they did it for years with no regrets. That level of contempt for customers deserves to be boycotted in perpetuity.