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Prices are out of control
Posted on 10/5/26 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 10/5/26 at 8:46 pm
A couple years ago I was buying SAMSUNG 1 TB NVME drives for $50. Today the absolute bottom of the barrel no name Chinese drive is $150. For Samsung you're looking at closer to $250 for 1 TB now.
shite is so ridiculous.
This post has no point other than me ranting. Thanks for listening.
shite is so ridiculous.
This post has no point other than me ranting. Thanks for listening.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 8:47 pm to AUstar
Bought a 32 GB ram kit for like $220 18 mins ago.
Same kit is over 500 now
It's ridiculous and its 100% because of the AI Data centers
Same kit is over 500 now
It's ridiculous and its 100% because of the AI Data centers
This post was edited on 10/5/26 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 10/5/26 at 10:37 pm to SG_Geaux
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AI Data centers
Totally different than general data centers with workload that can move with a click.
Posted on 10/6/26 at 6:25 am to AUstar
I just fired up an old Nvidia Jetson this weekend just to act as a 1TB NFS share on my stack because I had the NVMe already and adding a whole machine made more sense than upgrading an existing NVMe from 1TB to 2TB.
I think things are going to get worse on the consumer side just because 1. local models are just finally becoming useful for agentic coding as of a couple months ago leading to poor utilization of resource and 2. Big tech API providers keep proving that they can’t be trusted. Every day someone gets arrested or investigated because of an AI chat or some organization’s secrets become general LLM knowledge despite their high dollar “enterprise” privacy plan.
I think things are going to get worse on the consumer side just because 1. local models are just finally becoming useful for agentic coding as of a couple months ago leading to poor utilization of resource and 2. Big tech API providers keep proving that they can’t be trusted. Every day someone gets arrested or investigated because of an AI chat or some organization’s secrets become general LLM knowledge despite their high dollar “enterprise” privacy plan.
Posted on 10/6/26 at 6:40 am to AUstar
Laptop manufacturers should have never dropped the 2.5" bay. At least I could have put spinning HD media in if they had....
This post was edited on 10/6/26 at 6:41 am
Posted on 10/6/26 at 6:50 am to LemmyLives
It is because of AI datacenters why memory prices and SSD's are so expensive. This is what happens when one of the major manufacturers pivots to focus on datacenters instead of retail.
Posted on 10/6/26 at 7:45 am to LemmyLives
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Totally different than general data centers with workload that can move with a click
Spoken like someone that has never stepped foot in either. Toured the Switch facilities in Vegas, and the layout, cooling, and power infrastructure is very different from their "non-AI" facilities.
Could they work in either? Sure, but there's a reason they're not building them the same
Posted on 10/6/26 at 8:07 am to AUstar
Now do small business servers. An 8k server is now 25k. 2800 bucks for 32GB of server memory.
Posted on 10/6/26 at 8:25 am to ColdDuck
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2800 bucks for 32GB of server memory.
That's the HPE/Dell markup price
This post was edited on 10/6/26 at 8:25 am
Posted on 10/6/26 at 8:41 am to AUstar
I'm trying to outfit 2 NAS enclosures.
Managed to find 2 15 year old 3tb hitachis on eBay for $40ea with less than 150 hours on ebay.
They clearly had never been put to use.
Just gonna ride with those for now until the prices get in check..if ever.
I see they are pushing 30 and 40tb spin drives for 2027 but you could buy a Lexus for less money.
Managed to find 2 15 year old 3tb hitachis on eBay for $40ea with less than 150 hours on ebay.
They clearly had never been put to use.
Just gonna ride with those for now until the prices get in check..if ever.
I see they are pushing 30 and 40tb spin drives for 2027 but you could buy a Lexus for less money.
This post was edited on 10/6/26 at 9:07 am
Posted on 10/6/26 at 9:31 am to CAD703X
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Managed to find 2 15 year old 3tb hitachis on eBay for $40ea with less than 150 hours on ebay.
Where were you able to find these?
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