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[prebuilt] PC shipments fell by a massive 20% year-over-year last quarter, and yes it's due to the memory crisis (www.tweaktown.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 32 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

$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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago

    Before the world firmly settled in the bad place, deals multiple times a year put shuckable external drives at $10/TB. I have a few left and am just hoping I don't run out before Pop+2 years, which is probably how long it'll take to make drives anywhere near affordable.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    I went crazy buying storage and other products before the US president took office because of tariff threats.

    There was a short period when AI led to minimum ram offerings increasing like the MacMini going from 8 gigs to 16 gigs. That was shortlived as AI vacuumed up all the ram and storage.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I had to decom a bunch of hardware for work last year. I decided the well-used but not bad enterprise storage needed to come home with me. Sitting on 40tb of spinning disk and 15tb of flash (in raidz2) with spares. Only worry I have is my parity drive is a 12tb and larger than the rest.

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