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Recently, I was shopping for a hard drive at a big box store and tried to filter by capacity ... (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

https://diskprices.com/ is helpful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Much appreciated! I ended up ordering from Newegg, which had much more sensible filters. I had originally purchased what I wanted from Amazon, but the first one I got, ordered refurbished, had clearly been shucked and replaced with a 160GB drive from (IIRC) 2008 and the second one, ordered new, started audibly clicking one day into use.

For some reason (described by Amazon customer support as a "server glitch") Amazon had a really tough time with the return of both of them. This drive is meant to back up a RAID attached to my file server, so I didn't want to continue tempting fate by continuing to leave the server un-backed-up, which is why I was trying to find a place I could pick up one approximately the same day. I wasn't able to find such a place, so I went with Newegg because it seemed like a bad idea to keep trying Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Wow, thanks for this