Yeah, wow. I hadn’t realised that the prices had gone up that much on hard disks as well. A pair of Synology 4TBs I bought for 2500SEK 18 months ago are now 3400SEK each from the same vendor.

I have 6x unused 6TB SAS drives I bought for $50 each in 2024. I assume they are $150 each now. I can't afford cold storage right now so I rely on raidz2 and can replace drives as they die.. But they have 2 years and no SMART errors.

Worse than that, sellers on Amazon all seem to be scams now[1], and my trusted local supplier (who has genuine parts) is only selling one hard disk per customer. Good luck populating a NAS.

[1] example from when I was trying to buy NAS drives a few weeks back: https://www.amazon.co.uk/sp?marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&sel...