Edit0: I’m disappointed that some people that take time to comment don’t seem to take time to read the whole post. Then, perhaps, they would realize that this post is not an SSD vs. HDD discussion, that using HDDs are out of question with my current living situation and that I just wanted to vent among peers.
Edit1: While I’m not judging - I myself recently moved to my current apartment for the very sake of being able to seed nonstop - I’m disappointed at how some of the commenters don’t take seeding for granted in a pirating community.

When I began building my server rig - which includes my torrenting setup - last year, I was able to find the 4TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Samsung 870 EVO for about €300. I bought four of them, but now, I’m running out of space, so I checked a couple of retailers. Wowee. What is going on with these prices. 😂 Even Micron’s Crucial brand, which at some point was the more affordable option, is way past it’s curfew. 🤬

I just wanted to vent.

Since I’m one of those people who’d rather sleep in an anechoic chamber or at the very least use white noise or the likes in order to sleep, running HDDs doing random reads and writes next to my bed in my single room apartment is not a option.

  • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I wish I could afford an SSD Nas since my main server is located in my bedroom. For now I have to be content with shutting anything down over night that triggers HDD activity.

    I used to have a 4TB Ironwolf HDD but also ran out of space on that. As I already use a 2x16TB NAS server as a backup destination I looked to get another 16TB drive that I might repurpose at some point in the future.

    I had to settle for a WD Elements HDD at about 310 Euro. My Ironwolf was really quiet. Might be because it is a 5400 RPM drive. The element almost drives me mad because the drive head clicks very loudly.

    Same reason I don’t use my actual synology NAS with Toshiba MG08 drives as more than a backup server but at least those are actual server HDDs and so usually aren’t expected to be quiet.

    I also just wanted to rant a bit. Don’t mind me