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

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:31:02 -0500
William Bagwell via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Friday, January 02, 2026 02:23:15 AM Ron via Ale wrote:
> > The Seagate 530R 2TB is up from $195 to ... out of stock. Was $270
> > last I saw.  
> 
> "Seagate Constellation ES 2 TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch 

If all you want is 2TB, why not get an NVMe or SSD? The extra $150-$200
is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of your whole computer.

SteveT

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