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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
Same here... guess who finally decided to try this Nas thingy with leftover hardware and some SSDs, in the worst period possible?