Aside from popular headlines; I think people are realizing they don’t need the latest hardware to do tasks or play video games.
Thanks captain obvious.
$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.
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.
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.
Thing is, I’d like to never buy memory from these three asshole companies ever again, but right now it looks like that’s an impossible proposition.
Imagine just throwing away your consumers like their trash.
What a business model…
That’s the thing. We aren’t their consumers. 70% of memory right now is going straight to AI. 30% is to normal people
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.
These aren’t mistakes. They want to sell you shitty tablets and stream your computer to you for a monthly subscription. That’s the endgame.
I was referring to the mistake of the heavy investment into ‘AI’.
It isn’t a mistake; it’s the excuse to consolidate and take the monopoly on compute power.
Oh, I know it’s on purpose, but doing something stupid without it being an accident doesn’t make it not a mistake for everyone else involved.
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
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
Year over year. Okay
Last quarter… What
Q3 2026 sales were 20% lower than Q3 2025 sales .
Just a bizarre way to phrase it then
Not due to “Windows 11” forcing users to buy new hardware if they want to continue their windows experience? I think a lot of the old “Windows 10” computers are now Linux machines. But you’re saying it’s because the tech bros billionaires are artificially creating demand for RAM? Okay then.
A lot of the DIY PC market is already under pressure. I worry that this will further strain the component makers (like cases and power supplies and such) and builders.
