Storage prices make new home server builds harder in Canada
Canadian Prime Day deals showed much higher storage prices for someone trying to build or expand a . The Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB cost 399 Canadian dollars each in sales last year, but the current sale price was 1,200 Canadian dollars. Its listed regular price was 1,850 Canadian dollars, so even the sale price felt about three times higher than last year.
Four of those drives had previously been used in a RAID 10 setup as a very fast main for a Dell 7920, costing about 1,600 Canadian dollars before tax. Large were also more expensive. WD Elements 18TB external drives, once bought from Best Buy for about 750 Canadian dollars, were now close to 1,000 Canadian dollars.
Those external drives had been opened up and used inside a NAS, and two spare drives had already been used, making replacements necessary.
Key points
- A Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB sale price was about three times higher than last year’s sale purchase price.
- Four 4TB SSDs had previously made a fast RAID 10 for about 1,600 Canadian dollars before tax.
- WD Elements 18TB external drives rose from about 750 Canadian dollars to nearly 1,000 Canadian dollars.
- Opening external drives for NAS use is becoming more expensive when replacement drives cost more.
- A budget should include storage and spare drives, not just the computer.