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[-] Baguette 31 points 6 days ago

Truly hate this timeline

I've been looking at used PCs and usually those are just missing the gpu, but now I've been seeing no RAM and no SSD. At least with the gpu only being missing it was semi functional if there was integrated graphics, but now you are just basically buying a brick until you can get 3 components that cost 400 or so USD

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I started building a RAID before the prices of hard drives popped off, so I got the enclosure and one drive, I was going to buy the other drives when I had some spare cash. Now a single 8tb HDD (not even solid state!) is $450 CAD and there's no way I can spend $1350 to finish this thing so it's just sitting there.

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I had the exact same plan, luckily I had a couple of other 1TB drives lying around I've made a RAID from. but i took a screenshot of the drives I wanted when I bought my first 4TB drive, and then I looked at them again 11 months later...

Lower price is from 06/25 and the other is 05/26.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Honestly, what's the point in selling the machine at all at that point. Clearly those components are worth more out of the machine than in.

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