Windows 11 better not fuck my hardware up like windows 10 did. Surely they will have fixed that potential issue. Surely they have….surely….
So what you are saying is that I’ll have to choose between buying a house or buying a computer?
Just kidding, I can’t afford either.
You can instead choose between renting a house or renting a computer
yessss i bought a septic tank and a bunch of paper bags before the downturn i’m gonna be a landlord
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Or living under a bridge. Also an option.
A few months ago I decided to upgrade my home server. I estimated that 4 2TB nvme SSDs will cost about 350 eur and ordered a nice new ARM box with 64GB RAM and a PCIe thing to split an x8 slot to 4 M.2s.
The box has arrived last week so I went to order the nvmes and it turned out that the cheapest 2TB SSD is 200 eur now. For the price of one! Now I don’t have the disks and the past few days I’ve been restless and thinking whether I should just eat the cost now or wait for the prices to fall back. Recent NVIDIA keynotes talk about increasing context size or whatever so it looks like the cost will only rise in the near future.
Fuck NVIDIA and fuck everyone who participates in the latest hype cycle.
Same boat, just gonna use the M.2s that I already have as cache and jerry rig all my disks together. Disk prices are going up likely now because of everyone recoiling from SSD prices, so gotta make do. This hype can’t keep going, I can’t wait for it to end… but that still doesn’t cover what happens when these companies inevitebly default on their promises, and certainly doesnt mean free RAM for us plebs
At least we can still buy HDDs. Oh, wait…
Guess I won’t be getting a 4TB SSD any time soon then. Ahh well, I can fit stuff on my smaller SSD it just means rotating it from HDD storage when it isn’t going to be used.
This is the strategy I am now forced to adopt as well. I bought a 2 TB SSD for my home server in late 2024 for $80, then it died exactly a year and a day later. I knew RAM was out of control, but didn’t expect to see the same SSD for $350.
So I guess it’s back to the old 250 GB SSD and rotating old stuff onto an ancient HHD, then hoping prices tank again before one of those implodes.
Did it only have a 1 year warranty? That sounds terrible.
I long for the days when one could download RAM.
