This is fucking insane. 160$ for a 500gb drive, not even 1-2tb which is considered very small nowadays, I used to buy 8tb for similar prices.
Look aroundhttps://www.caracre.com/product-p-1056633.html
Or herehttps://www.ebay.com/itm/185832844904One second on google
Not only are yuropoors dying of heatstroke, they're dying of EUSSR pricerape.Even here in Ausfalia, that drive, but 1TB, is barely 100 USD.
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>>109326092prices total insanemy idea was to buy old notebooks for cheap hddscheck ebay-> people sell old laptops and computers stripped of ram and hddscrazy times
>>109326326such is life in yuropooria :(Glad I got my 4Tb WD ssds before the prices went up!
The AI raping will continue. Don't be selfish, LLMs need the storage more than you do. Don't stand in the way of progress. AGI is our future. Sam Altman is our Messiah
>>109326092>I used to buy 8tb for similar prices.really? were they really that cheap? I'm a newfag and I recently bought 2 drives. /g/ blackpilled me on selfhosting.I recently saw a tiktok of a dude explaining how hardware starting to cost more, digital only and how they wan't you to prevent to host your own shit. And how they want you to use spyware and subscriptions instead and when the first triple a streaming only game will be released. and how vpns will be illegal and how you can't buy movies and games anymore, I'm scared anon I'm scared but I will help to preserve the old internet even if I never experienced that I want to have it back.
>>109326092I used to buy 8tb for ~100€
>>109328341just look at Amazon price history over the last year, the cartel wants to get rid of consumers buying storage and memory and only sell to AI companies
>>109328807Everyone here acting like they wouldn’t sell their product to the highest bidder (assuming you’ve ever made anything worth selling)
>>109328828there's no justification for the price rise other than they want to make more profit. there's no external shortage, it's all they just thought "let's cut consumer supply and raise prices" and there's no alternative for consumers. it's a de facto oligopoly and probably a cartel. only the most retarded cunts like you approve of these anti-consumer actions that are spreading out into the economy raising prices of all electronics and harming everyone's pocket. a fucking tax on the working man on behalf of OpenAI and the others. so no you cunt, not everyone would screw over customers like a scumbag like you
>>109326190Got a cloudfare warning about this being a phishing site.
>>109328828what a retarded thing to say
>>109328828This is where benevolent governments, oxymoron i know, should have guardrails. No stockexchange system. IP system that allows for 200% of R&D return after which it expires and can be copied by anybody. Set amount of profit allowed (15%) so goods become cheaper in the long run + people get better wages. Goods spread among consumers/companies.If a hypothetical technological boom would require all clean water and food, you'd accept that everyone would starve because prices would 10x overnight?
>>109326092I am wondering when a new challenger will open up surely there are fabs elsewhere in the world that can make these old drives.
nigger you can get a stack of 10 of these for $90 on ebay.
>>109326092sure sure.that is just more than 4 times the price of the 2tb version on amazon right now.
>>109328892Why were prices cheaper before then, if they can just arbitrarily raise them to whatever they like? It’s supply and demand.
>>109326092remember to thank sony for driving up digital storage prices with all these production plants dependent on no sudden changes!
why the fuck do datacenters need consumer WD Blues?
>>109329453>It’s supply and demand.Yes and the sun rises from the East.Retard
>>109329453so it's people with a cursory take on what's going on with memory and storage who have the craziest takes. consumer supply hasn't changed. datacenter demand skyrocketed out of nowhere. corporate customers shouldn't affect the average gamer guy building a battlestation as OpenAI has no need for WD Blue 500gb. but what does WD do? cut consumer output, limit supply and increase price so WD can make 1000% more costly datacenter storage.people like Sam Altman are well known sociopaths as confirmed by his colleagues. the people who think consumers can be cut out for the good of datacenters are just sociopathic.
>>109326501They don't. It's spambots replying to spambots.
>>109326092i wanted to buy 8TB and the fucking 8TB costs like 14-16TB was just two years ago.. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>109328307why do luddites hate being gay with their own dad?
>>109330300that's an incomprehensible comment but it seems you're trying to say if you don't happily give up your cheap storage to hyperscaler AI datacenters you're a luddite? actually proving the point that feeding the AI hype machine is a religion with Sam Altman as the Messiah?
>>1093302988tb on one drive is too much of a liability fren. You shouldn’t have more than 500gb drives. And when you need more space, buy another one and spread the data across many drives. That way if one drive dies you don’t lose a huge amount of data
>>109326092500 gig PCIE3 nvme is 70$
>>109328976Stock is only a problem because of fiat currency. Everything goes back to fucking monopoly money.
>>109330401or arrange your system such that the loss of a disk means you don't lose any data. dumbass
>>109328807More like the dorrar is losing value fast. Be glad that you can still buy imported things for now
>>109329453immigration
>>109326092I paid €310 for each of my 20TB Toshibas that are also considerably faster not just larger capacity.
>>109326092I bought a 500gb in used condition for less than 13 bucks the other day Step your game up you lazy ahh nibba lol
Prices here literally doubled. I
So can I sell a bunch of my old hard drives for profit now?
>>109331431There could be digital aids on that used hard drive
dont care i have over 70tb
>>109331450that really sucks. I hope you can get some refurbisched drives and use them for raid/snapraid.
>>109331316Non electronic consumer prices went down though dumb-dumb. The dollar slipping is bad for exporters btw because it means they make less in trade.
>>109329453Hardware companies know that AI demand is a bubble. so they don't want to increase production 10x then get caught with the bag when the bubble pops and have their shit drop to a cheaper amount.Because of that they don't make more hardware and refuse to increase production. AI companies also realized they can starve eachother out via manufacturing deals. Can't make a better AI if you can't get any storage. This means that people who WOULD be buying corporate drives can't, so they buy consumer drives. This can be anything from a business that needs 10-12 drives for their personal servers or a big call center that needs to replace some too.Because that downward pressure hits the market, it means the people who have the drives raise prices due to demand and lower stock.Gotta wait a few years until either hardware manufacturers increase production(unlikely, they're making bank) or AI companies run out of capital(much more likely, because they're unprofitable). Most likely when a democrat gets voted in, because the powers that be will know they can't just do what they're doing now which is to pay some slut to give ol' trumpo a handy under the desk to let them act like the vampiric retards they are.
>>109331552Retard, nothing went down except for your fent maybe
>>109326092>Tfw bought a couple 12tbs for about that priceWow, you really should have capitalized on the world record lows in storage prices while you could huh. Oh well
>>109328892I stopped supporting customer rights when they all started referring to themselves as consumers. I'm still trying to figure out how someone consumers a tv show or a music track. You get what you deserve, the industry shit tested it's cattle and they folded now everything sucks
>>109331316400% increase in storage price isn't anything to do with exchange rates, that's a fucking weird thing to blame it on
>>109331807based nihilist fatalistically accepting getting screwed over by megacorps for autistic reasons
>>109331690Everything is a buck or so cheaper than it was two years ago. I don't like Trump by the way. Sorry to bust your bubble chang.
>>109330401>tfw can no longer fit in my house after migrating my 1PB array to 500GB drives
>>109326092>I used to buy 8tb for similar prices.so why did you not buy them back then? are you also finding yourself ramless today? you had 10 years to have 64-128GB in your machine. NOW you need ram and storage? fuck you
>>109326092A 2TB WD Blue is €1 more from the same site. Are you retarded, or just trolling?https://arvutitark.ee/en/pc-components/hard-drives-hddssd/kovakettad-hdd/western-digital-blue-500gb-1005654>€163.50https://arvutitark.ee/en/pc-components/hard-drives-hddssd/kovakettad-hdd/wd-blue-2tb-sata-6gbs-hdd-desktop-1265367>€164.50
>>109326326I just bought a sn850x 2tb for 370usd equivalent (including tax cause EU) it's not that bad here
