[ale] Cheap spinning rust was: to lvm or not lvm

[Ron]

Ron via Ale wrote on 2026-01-01 20:28:

> Today, priced at $699.99 - holy crap!

Silly me, maybe.

That's the *sale* price at $250 off - regular $950!

And that's at both local stores:

 > https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00122322


> https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/desktop-laptop-internal-ssds/226019/ 
> wd-black-sn850x-2tb-pcie-gen4-nvme-m-2-ssd-wds200t2x0e.html

So, yeah, WD is not just willing but eager to gouge their customers.


The Seagate 530R 2TB is up from $195 to ... out of stock. Was $270 last 
I saw.


Interestingly, the Seagate wins on every metric shown on this site 
(where it isn't a tie) except one category: number of on-board 
controllers (WD has 9, Seagate has 8), which gave WD a win as this in 
theory makes the WD faster.

Yet the actual read / write speeds have Seagate winning every category, 
and twice the TBW durability specs.


Interesting.