- want to make a server
- RAM and HDD prices spike
Fuck this
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Proxmox cluster and shuck externals I started during the 2008 crash this is how I'd do budget HL
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Billionaires are not going to give you a chance to decide whether you want a dumb thin AI client or not.
You won't be able to procure the hardware even if you could afford it.
We are all gonna be some version the brotherhood of steel now
and if you don't shut up and like it you will be cut out of the internet ... black balled by ATT/T Mobile/Verizon while they refuse to drop fiber to the curb but will end up puling the copper off the poles so no more wired internet.
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We've taken all the blame and put it on AI like it's acting independently and appeared out of nowhere. This is global collusion to fuck the customers everywhere. It's people doing this.
Just in time for me to want to upgrade the home server storage.
I guess I'm gonna have to salvage old hard drives and deal with the tiny space.
Just finished ripping about 150 of our DVD collection and space was filling up, went looking for HDDs and was surprised at the prices. Now I know why.
I just finished fixing my storage setup and was ready to add more... 😭
Bought a 12 TB data center drive that had 3 years of spin time on it for $94 August '24. When I check the eBay listing now I see it's $220 😵
It keeps feeling like this bubble won't pop and we'll just keep riding upwards like the housing market
I don't think this is sustainable because it seems like a closed loop that eventually stops making money without any new inputs.
People NEED housing, they don't really need computer components.
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See? That's why Satya Nadella doesn't care about Windows. Soon nobody will be able to afford a PC anyways.
They want consumers to have cheap low-resource systems so they are forced to use the cloud for storage and processing.
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They're not the victims... WE ARE. They're giving in to the tech bros idiocy and catering to their wishes. If they any ounce of dignity as a honorable brand, none of them would have risen their prices. There's literally ZERO actual reason for them to do this other than tech bros rigging it against the rest of us.
Phew! I just bought three 16TB drives a couple of months ago for my jellyfin setup.
Selling them for $5000 each if anyone is interested.
Do we dare ask why you need 48TB to store media, or do we slowly back out of the room, avoiding eye contact?
Redundancy and high quality backups maybe? Some people have hoarded a lot of media over how many years, doesn't seem too far fetched to me.
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I'll just note there is still a loophole: external drives have sales in the $10-11/TB range, and you can shuck the drives.
Right now $280 for 26TB, for example: https://slickdeals.net/f/19091557-26tb-seagate-expansion-desktop-usb-3-0-external-hard-drive-280-free-shipping
That's apparently CMR Barracuda inside.
These may disappear completely, or may simply be drives that AI data centers do not prefer permanently, since they are not rated for 24/7 use. Fine for RAID home server use, apparently, though
I remember doing this years ago, but the only problem I remember is they were 2 hard drives instead of 1 inside split in size to lower the cost. Idk if its different now, but if you expect 1 drive at that size that could be wrong.
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We are spiraling towards a you own nothing and rent/subscription it all society.
Honestly. Tankie as hell to say this, but thank fuck for China providing cheap easy alternatives to mainstream hardware
So computer parts are just the new toilet paper then...
Speaking of toilet paper, if they burn it can can use the heat to boil water and generate electricity. Since they use everything they can get their hands on to generate electricity it might soon be a new tp crisis.
Fuck, I thought HDDs were spared cause of their low speed.
Companies usually use HDDs because they last longer and are cheaper
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Made me buy a used 10tb drive recently.
Screw them all, I will have a place for my data and I won't pay them a dollar for these shenanigans.
I will use a book shelf sized rack of RAID hubs filled with 1 GB flash drives before I buy a single fucking KB of cloud space.
I will install an ancient version of Linux on my mackie D8B soundboard and use that as my PC before I ever buy a goddamn cloud computer.
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We will never be able to replace our old thinkpads
My 2TB SSD (which I bought for about 100€) failed, I could get my money back but a new one is now 300€.
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Noooooo!!
I just dreamt last night I had 2 more 28tb hard drives for my server to backup.
Now it's a nightmare. Fuck AI!!!
It's been a while since I bought storage. $500 for 24TB seems like a steal to me. Not that I have any need for 24TB. Also, I don't trust Seagate drives. I'd rather have four, 6TB drives than one 24TB drive, but that's just experience talking--I've lost several drives over the years, and most of them were Seagate. YMMV.
Time to buy some sbc boards so I can actually host content in ten years, with whoever's software considering the foss devs will be broke.
Thank fuck I'm a millennial and I only have thirty more years on the disappointment machine.
If you're under 30, learn how to shoot. You won't be doing much hosting.
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AI has really been great for the economy. /s
Goddamnit. First ram now this? I'm never making my nas
Glad I picked up new NAS drives when I did. 8x 18TB Seagate Exos for $180 each. Two years later its doubled
I am so fucking jealous of you right now.
An with my investments i really wanna cash in right now, i feel like the bubble is about to burst in the next 3-6months. Then stocks would go down by like 30% and i can buy in again.
Im almost certain its gonna crash down and i wanna be out before that happens but right now stocks just go up way to much.
Usually people advise against trying to time the market. Missing the down is one thing but if you miss the way back up then that is a lot of potential profit gone. Weathering the storm is typically the better option.
Why… why would hard drives be going up in price?? AI does not use spinning platters of rust, like, at all.
Yes it does. Where do you think they store those gigantic training datasets?
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Because the opposite is true. AI uses spinning rust far, far more than it does solid state storage.
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