On Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:33:12 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Mechanicals are getting older quicker, and SSDs
aren't dropping in price fast enough.

Bottom and short(er) line is with pricing for the two 2T mechanical
drives, 2T SDD replacements costs are not feasible. One audio the
other video, the audio HDDs are the mechanicals being more often
replaced (smaller files and more files). The 1T QVO was simply an
extension to exceeding a full 2T mechanical HDD audio storage, which
now are split across and a shared 3T load by the QVO SSD unit.

If somebody wants to play then at some point that have pay. Two and
luckily more years on a mechanical HDD -- that's still what has to be
paid.

The stash of Samsung mechanicals I bought on various, at the time,
good sales -- a 1.5T 7200, two 1T 5400 models, and a 2T 5400 for the
time being that even been working for a few months in a 24/7 box --
has turned unacceptably south. As I said the 1.5T and one of the 1T
models outright failed, so they're not longer to be considered
workable, nor reliable (even for continued intermittent
temperature-related usage, where they will nevertheless spin up, once
cold to be recognized, at least for awhile or more until they heat
back up to normal temperatures, before not long only to fail for
perhaps permanently).

In the I.T. server world that's analogous to something along a $20
sale, usually $40, for 2T server-class drives pulled from commercial
environs and resold on terminal hour-based usage patterns. Me -- I'd
as soon add another $10 and try swing a WD blue or green, possibly
red, or even to veer into considering Seagates.

$200 for another 2T QVO SSD, that's still too rich at this point for
my blood. I've only just put my foot in the water, though, with the
1T QVO, as I don't expect to fill it to capacity for some time.

Perhaps when hogs fly from ponds and a decent 2T SSD costs $100.