Hard drive prices have been very high recently, but I still managed to get a few drives at good price (considering). Last month I bought a 22TB for $329 and two 24TB for $404 each. It has not even been 30 days, and the drive prices have skyrocketed.

I cannot afford to buy hard drives at their current prices, and I've been downloading less and less, only trying to complete archiving some channels from you-know-where and I think I'm going to stop buying hard drives for now and start organizing what I have. Going to switch to sustainable approach, maintain the drives properly, organize the data I have. I think once I organize about 20-30TB of data, I might be able free up two or three 20TB drives (currently just holding unorganized downloads).

I work from home, so I have some time at hand to do other things. Some of my current projects are:

1. *Organize the digital data.*

2. *Cleanup cloud storage and only upload encrypted data from now on.*

3. *Change passwords on important sites, and save them to KeePassXC (And delete them from browser password manager one by one) \[If you know of a better option than KeePassXC, please let me know\]*

4. *Integrate YubiKey wherever possible.*

5. *Change browser to brave (I know, I know) and switch from Gmail to Proton slowly.*



I would like to know if you are working on any related projects, maybe I can get some idea.

Are you still buying hard drives now that the price has skyrocketed?