• violentfart@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I still have my price watcher for 8TB 2.5” drives at $320, intending to buy them when they fell to that price again.

    Almost exactly 3 years later they are $1,440 during a sale.

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      3 days ago

      Last year, one of the executives where I work decided they wanted an 8 terabyte SSD, and we bought them one, and it was like $800, and we were like, man, that is crazy. That’s a halfway good deal for an 8 terabyte SSD.

      Literally two months later, I remembered that and I was like, you know, I have a little extra money in the budget. I might want to upgrade. Yeah, it was like $1,800.

      If the guy ever takes his eyes off his laptop for more than 20 minutes, I may swap him out for a two terabyte and just act confused when I don’t know what happened.