Ant wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:
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Yup, buy HGST drives. And hard drives are getting more reliable.

What's the best place to buy new ones for cheap?

Let's take a random advert.

https://www.serversupply.com/HARD%20...ST/0F38462.htm

HGST is owned by Western Digital.

The category is "Enterprise". 16TB for $577 USD.

HGST was staffed by IBM staffers, because it was
the former IBM consumer drive division, and made
DeathStars.

They might have done HelioSeal before WDC did.
Unlike regular air-breathing drives (which use a breather hole),
the HelioSeal are sealed and have a Helium gas atmosphere
inside. Helium drives draw less power, or allow more platters
(with the platters eventually returning to glass, just like
IBM days - that's how they plan to make thinner platters).

The Helium gas is guaranteed to stay inside for 5 years.

What part of that history sez "16TB for $79" ? :-)

Paul