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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing!

😭

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

Well...up until recently

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Last year, I bought a 22TB hard drive to recover from a 17TB drive failure. I barely got my wife to agree to the one drive, and simply could not convince her that we should get a backup. Our compromise was that I'd add a category to our budget with a year-long goal for a new hard drive. On Friday, I bought my new hard drive after wiping out the category, cashing some old bonds, and borrowing some money from a friend who also uses my server. I wanna fucking cry...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I remember my first 2GB flash drive. I thought I had sooo much storage...

Years later when I learned I could get an SD card with 32GB, I was like "It comes in 32GB? 🤯"

And don't even get me started on my first 1TB hard drive!