Expand your home server for less — WD Red Plus 2TB NAS drive falls to $155 at Newegg
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Cheaper 2TB NAS drives keep local storage economically viable for small labs and prosumers running self-hosted stacks. If you’re experimenting with on-prem AI or media, this is another nudge to own more of your data plane instead of defaulting to cloud.
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