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Re: hard drives for backup

From	Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: hard drives for backup
Date	2026-06-30 15:46 -0500
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On 6/29/2026 4:16 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 6/29/2026 2:41 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 6/27/2026 5:14 PM, Ant wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 6/20/2026 3:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>> Dadgumit, the WD external USB hard drives have doubled in price since
>>>>> the beginning of the year.  16 TB is now $654.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-External-external-storage/dp/
>>>>> B08KTRKB6S
>>>>>
>>>>> I want a new one for backups but not that bad.  The 20 TB is $815. 
>>>>> Woof!
>>>>>
>>>>> I really do not like reformatting backup hard drives so I like to get
>>>>> really big ones. Our LAN backup is 5 TB but we have a lot of temporary
>>>>> files that accumulate such as daily zip files of 3 GB databases.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lynn
>>>
>>>> And now the WD 20 TB external is $600.  What is going on?
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-External-external-storage/ 
>>>> dp/ B09VCXWPQG
>>>
>>> Haven't you seen the news about AI? :P
>>
>> The price dropped from $815 to $600.  I did not expect that.
>>
>> Lynn
> 
> And now back to $815 in price for the WD 20 TB.
> 
> Lynn

  
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-External-external-storage/dp/B09VCXWPQG

And today the 20 TB WD is $745.

This reminds me of fly fishing and I am the fish.

Lynn

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hard drives for backup Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 15:12 -0500
  Re: hard drives for backup Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-27 15:22 -0500
    Re: hard drives for backup ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2026-06-27 22:14 +0000
      Re: hard drives for backup Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 02:41 -0500
        Re: hard drives for backup Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 16:16 -0500
          Re: hard drives for backup Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 15:46 -0500

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