Post #3061385
2026-06-02 23:48 UTC
Replies (19)
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@asmcbain@woof.tech 2026-06-03 02:28
@mathowie@xoxo.zone Is that Amazon's? You got it to work? Every time I check the price history on something Amazon it just shows peaks on the days someone (or me) asked it to check. It creates false lows for every day that wasn't checked. Maybe making people think they _just_ missed a sale causes them to give in and buy it?
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@kevbob@xoxo.zone 2026-06-02 23:54
@mathowie@xoxo.zone I bought 2 Seagate 14tb EXOS drives for $420 two years ago for my Synology. Not a chance now. I pray they last.
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@Thorium@social.linux.pizza 2026-06-02 23:56
@mathowie@xoxo.zone Dealing with this crap right now. Screw AI! Can't wait for the collapse.
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@nelson@tech.lgbt 2026-06-02 23:58
@mathowie@xoxo.zone hey the AI did a good job rendering that graph!
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@raymondjohnson@mastodon.social 2026-06-03 00:00
@mathowie@xoxo.zone I like looking back at this blog post as a reminder of where we *thought* we were headed with mass storage prices. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
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@waldoj@mastodon.social 2026-06-03 02:56
@mathowie@xoxo.zone It blows my mind that the price of storage could go *up* as anything more than a blip. This is not…OK well actually this is the future I was promised, but it's not the one that I *wanted*.
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@anemone@ebiverse.social 2026-06-03 02:56
@mathowie@xoxo.zone you will own nothing and be happy
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@phil_stevens@mastodon.nz 2026-06-03 03:03
@mathowie@xoxo.zone These are not the doubling rates we were looking for.
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@seacow@mastodon.art 2026-06-03 03:19
@mathowie@xoxo.zone artificial inflation
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@bbech@mastodon.social 2026-06-03 03:36
@mathowie@xoxo.zone one of the things like many where I feel like I’m in a place in my 30s that I have the disposable income to buy things I lusted after in my late 20s and early 30s but everything raising in cost makes it 2x plus more than what it was when I was looking at it.
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-06-03 09:27
@mathowie@xoxo.zone Oh wow. They sure are going up. I looked up an 8TB drive I acquired back in February that was selling for $210 back then and it's now $340 in just a few months. That's nowhere as extreme as that 24TB drive obviously, but it shows that we're looking at a bad trend here. I thought their harddrive usage at least wasn't scaling all that much, but I guess they just are afraid to delete anything in all the sto- I mean scraped data so it's just building up and up?
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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-06-03 12:46
@mathowie@xoxo.zone Why the announcement of the nVidia Spark made no sense: with the price of RAM, GPUs and storage (especially SSDs), who's going to be buying one?
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@david@social.piconet.work 2026-06-03 14:58
@mathowie@xoxo.zone It's given me a bit of anxiety. I've actually glanced in the direction of my laptop recently and thought "If a desktop NVME drive dies, I can just take the one out of there." My NAS is switched off because it's 8 years old rather than risk drive failure until the prices come down.
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@tvaziri@mastodon.social 2026-06-03 15:09
@mathowie@xoxo.zone jeeeeeeez
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe 2026-06-03 15:12
@mathowie@xoxo.zone And you know these prices won't go down when supplies improve.
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@v1rulenc3@infosec.exchange 2026-06-03 16:23
@mathowie@xoxo.zone I don't have the stats right now for it but the RAM in my laptop was ~$130 when I got it last fall. It has been over $400 since December.
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@fuzzyspoon@beige.party 2026-06-04 13:03
@mathowie@xoxo.zone @lisamelton@mastodon.social that y-axis is also wild.
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@majick@mefi.social 2026-06-04 16:33
@mathowie@xoxo.zone fffffffffffffffffuck. It's at a point where if one drive in the zpool pops I'm just going to... ignore it for a while. Eat the risk and adore my backups. This is not the "supply chain is my replacement stock" strategy I was planning around.
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@polx@mastodon.online 2026-06-05 06:35
@mathowie@xoxo.zone Maybe engineers (real ones) will be more needed to realize horizontal scalability?