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$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.
That itself should be fucking illegal tbh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I sort of know the feeling. I got some good memory and storage a few years ago.