In 2025, I bought four WD Black 8TB NVMe…

In 2025, I bought four WD Black 8TB NVMe SSDs, slammed them in a Thunderbolt enclosure, and set them up as a 32TB Raid 0 volume for my Mac Studio.

Price in April 2025: $2,199.96
Price today: $5,836.00

Felt stupidly expensive at the time, but now I feel like a genius.

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