$200 for 8TB back in 2022
$545 for the same damn drive now.
I’m actually glad I went a little crazy buying storage back then, sitting on 40TB locally, but I recoil at the thought of replacing any of them.
Friend of mine has an ssd fail. Amazon refused to replace and instead gave him a a refund. He only got half of what it now costs back. Insane.
I’m pretty sure $15/TB for HDDs was considered the standard not too many years ago
Edit: the last time I bought an HDD (2023) it was 20 TB for $280, so $14/TB.
Imagine just throwing away your consumers like their trash.
What a business model…
Raspberry Pi foundation looks wistful
Who ever would have seen that coming? It’s almost like the poor decisions of dickheads made an important commodity prohibitively expensive.
Off topic as it is not gaming related:
I figured this was coming so I bought four System76 Meerkats with AMD processors, 4TB nvmes and 96GB of RAM. Each actively runs six to seven Win 11 VMs on ProxmoxVE, with many more on standby (each VM takes 128gb of disk space). Each VM runs large chunks of the client workloads that caused us to have to constantly upgrade our laptops. Now, by offloading the majority of the workload to these self-hosted virtual desktops (VDIs), we can extended the life of our “daily drivers” by years. My main PC is a 2019 Thinkpad andnat this rate, I might easily get another five years out of it (barring hardware failure). When we do need to replace, we no longer have to buy laptops with top tier specs.
Nice
Off topic, but about the article: Are the articles getting shorter and shorter? The rest of the page has more content than the entire article body. I’ve seen some longer Lemmy replies. :D
I, for one, am happy to see an article where they simply get to the point and don’t unnecessarily fluff the word count.
I just wish the posts were not bloated otherwise too. Edit: But fair enough and good point. At least its to the point, which is definitely a plus point.
