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  • FYI: Western Digital Hard Drive (NAS) sale ending this weekend -

    From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Jan 5 07:22:45 2024
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    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
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  • From -hh@recscuba_google@huntzinger.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Fri Jan 5 12:35:58 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Friday, January 5, 2024 at 10:22:48 AM UTC-5, -hh wrote:
    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),
    Correction: looks like it's CMR, not SMR. That's better.
    ... 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
    -hh
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