I bought 2 8TB drives last week and had to check if they were still in stock at the same retailer and they are, but the price have gone up with 23%…

I had the same issue when testing it, my server wasn’t powerful enough to run it. Elasticsearch seems to be the main culprit since its pretty heavy on both CPU and RAM, and that’s an intentional choice according to the developer: https://docs.tubearchivist.com/faq/#why-elasticsearch