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>Leaving my personal judgement of Amazon apart, I would nonetheless remove the links as the prices are what is substantial to the answer, not the exact products in sale.

If you remove the links, that would reduce the proposed solution to a baseless claim. Without links, I would advocate for removing the bit about buying a bigger drive entirely (well, that answer is mine so I'd just edit it) because without evidence the price claims are useless, and the whole "solution" falls apart.

The common thread here is that the question is asking for a DIY solution, but the effort of the DIY is actually not worth it compared to simply buying a cheap product. Of course, that only works if the product is actually cheap - you can't have a discussion of that if you can't put a price. And the price is useless if it can't be verified.

We do have a tradition on QA sites that contents of links should be reproduced in the post, in case the link dies later. Would it be better if instead of linking to Amazon, I provided detailed specs of the drives I was thinking of and stated that I can currently find them on sale for a certain price?

>Leaving my personal judgement of Amazon apart

I suspect many people would feel very differently about posting links to small, ethical, specialty retailers vs. large and controversial companies like Amazon. But that's irrelevant if you want to indiscriminately ban all product links.

It's probably worth a mention that in my opinion, the best option would be to quarantine all product linking to one site [like my proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289770) where the exact manner of product referencing can be moderated to extract some common good out of it. Meanwhile, other sites can ban any hint of product-purchase-related discussion with no downside, because those things can still be discussed in the quarantine. That said, the proposal I made has not attracted interest, so maybe that's just me.