Dude.
Fuck ALL of this.
God fucking damnit seriously.
my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess
Same with my 4x 16TBs in my NAS.
God I hope it will crash only once the bubble bursts to high heaven and a disk costs 20% of the current MSRP :|
As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again
Theory: the push to get everyone and everything on clouds where they can control it just “happens” to coincide with this development.
Really?
CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS FOR ONCE (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
I’m just gonna say, check out shucks.top, just got two 14tb drives for 160 each.
Are they used HDDs? Nothing worse than buying something that’s on the brink of dying.
Nope! They’re brand new shuckable (you can take out the hdd) external drives. I have 10 14tb drives in my nas that all came from this. And if you keep the enclosures, you can still warrenty them.
Used HDD aren’t on the brink of dying some them could last decades.
Thanks I didn’t think of doing that. I have sole hard drove to replace the difference on price is 50% for some huge sdd. I found this link, is it hood info or ai slop ? https://quickharddrive.com/best-shucking-hard-drive-2024-guide/653/
I’ve trusted this site for a long time. https://shucks.top/
Thanks I will look into it.
That’s def Ai, but it seems well curated and the info looks pretty reliable. I go for the western digital drives myself, they seem to have the best reliability. To pop them open it’s just plastic clips, and once you get the corners to pop you can usually pull the rest by hand.
Thanks for the advice. It made me doubt but I had no obvious clue.
If they are SMR, they are basically DOA (for my use case)
None of the WD 14tb have been SMR as of yet. Neither have the two 18tb drives I’ve shucked.
Like 2 years ago that was just a normal price ffs
Dude that steam machine going to end up costing $5,000 for a $500 pc.
If they already got the supplies, they could leverage the situation in their favour
You know they haven’t.
Great, now computers in general are just going to be stupid expensive
Remember when buying a PC was semi-affordable? That was nice. Now it’s transitioning into a luxury product.
For the vast part of the world, that is not the us or the EU, a PC, specially a very powerful one like for gaming, has always been an expensive luxury item. You’re just joining the club late.
Those other parts are turbo fucked now though. I guess I’ll keep my video game consoles going because at least they will always be able to play games; especially all my older ones.
4% is hardly a spike in the scheme of things. That’s just inflation when things aren’t really coming down in price any more.
I bought a drive a year or so ago and was surprised how expensive it was. At some point the price just stopped dropping. Presumably there’s a limit on how cheap you can make a spinning rust drive before it just doesn’t work any more.
Lol, only 4%. Ram more than doubled.
Is this like the last wave before the entire thing collapses or what?
Oh my sweet summer child
fuck I need to replace a drive in my nas soon but I’m already broke
It seems like I’ll soon have to use my DVD burner yet again. Now only if I found one for my ThinkPad, as it’s one of the last models that still had an option for it.
Guess im keeping all my dvds and vhs tapes then
Economic policies will start shifting to inflation reducing by raising interest rates. This is purely inflationary in all economies and it’s hilariously going to tank stock trading.
