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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	2026-06-29 02:41 -0500
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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

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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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