The hosts were working through the current spike in RAM and drive prices, and Jude had just joked that the real tip for saving space is figuring out which files you do not need. Here he gives up a rule he has run his own storage on for years. Co-host Joe Ressington agrees straight away that your time may no longer be worth more than the hardware.
Yeah, there's a great tip for saving hardware space. Figure out the files you don't need to be keeping all the time.
Yeah, exactly.
For so long, my policy has been it is cheaper to just buy more hard drives than to figure out what it is safe to delete, but the math may have flipped on that one.
Yeah, your time maybe isn't quite more valuable than hard drives anymore.
Well, it's certainly not more valuable than enterprise-grade solid-state drives. I can promise you that. Rust, I haven't seen go up so much that I'm like, oh no, this is just intolerable. But good lord, you go to buy, you know, like a 3.8 terabyte DC600M solid-state drive, and you're going to feel that pinch really quickly.
We did a quote for a company last summer, and then they actually bought it this summer. And over the course of that, basically one year, the price of a 15.36 terabyte enterprise NVMe that does like a million IOPS, so like a really fancy, good drive, went from like $2,600 to $10,000 a piece.