Ouch, I picked the wrong time to finally upgrade from my 12 year old laptop and Windows 7?
yeah win7 is better than any later winproduct
Oh for fucks sake… I wanted to expand my NAS… Crypto was (is still responsible) for the shit state of the GPU Market and now it’s the next scam.
Just got 12TB IronWolf last week for an average price if 260euro. Delivery is long but other than that, price is average.
Checked just right now - average 310euro for the same HDD. From the place I picked mine - 293. SCORE!
Thinking about this for a minute - that’s probably pre-Black-Friday prices. We’ll see
I haven’t been following trends but I just looked on newegg, and HDD and SSD prices look about where they were before, or maybe a bit higher. It’s nothing like the Chia craze where every drive of any kind was snapped up by crypto miners. Or the simliar thing further back where a flood in Thailand(?) clobbered a factory so there were big shortages and price spikes. Right now you can get drives if you’re willing to pay for them. There just hasn’t been the usual downward price trend.
I’ve been buying refurbished drives from ServerPartDeals and looking at my invoice from March versus now the price of the same drive has gone up 10% from $180 to $198 (Ultrastar HC530 14TB)
What else are these data centers going to hoard?
Jobs, GPUs, water, hard drives
So, if the AI bubble pops, it’ll be a great time to build a PC
Like there won’t be some other hype to immediately take it’s place. Just like Bitcoin GPU prices never collapsed because it went right into AI hype.
Tbf Bitcoin didn’t fuck with the GPU market, that was more etherium’s doing
Which is even sadder because Ethereum has always been a trash coin.
Why? And which coins are good?
Ethereum formally introduced the concept of smart contracts, and they had serious potential for modernizing financial contracts and push back an entire predatory industry of leechers, but instead it was used to create meme-coins and scam coins and ruined it all.
It’s move to proof of stake instead of proof of work dramatically reduced its energy usage, and makes it a actually scalable, but the masses lost interest when they couldn’t just make money off a few GPUs and turned to the aforementioned shit-coins built on the Ethereum network.
Ethereum is not bad, it’s one of the better ones. It’s just kind of responsible for the explosion of shit/scam coins, because people are shitty scammers.
the masses lost interest when they couldn’t just make money off a few GPUs and turned to the aforementioned shit-coins built on the Ethereum network.
Most of the shit meme coins are on Solana.
Does Solana benefit from that?
