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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Ack! No one has the 4TB Ironwolf Pro drives!

This is bullshit.

F'ckin' datacenter pricks.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I feel you. It's hurting all of us, seeing parts at over double the price they're worth or simply out of stock. I heard that after taking all the DDR5 RAM they went after HDDs.

These are my notes on components I was looking at, dated

Motherboard

ASRock Phantom Gaming X870E Nova WiFi (1.3x base)

  • Base £250
  • £320 in 02/2026

CPU

AMD Ryzen Zen 6 10700X3D?

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X (1.1x base)

  • Base £250
  • £280 in 03/2026

RAM

Corsair Vengeance / LPX - DDR5, 6800MT/s, CL32, 2x32GB (4.6x base)

  • Base £230 / £3.60/GB
  • £290 in 10/2025
  • £1,050 in 03/2026
  • £480 used
Depressing compromise RAM

Corsair Vengeance DDR5, 5600MT/s, CL40, 2x16GB

  • £270 used

Note: RAM in current build was £170 for 2x16GB in Feb 2017, equivalent to £230 in Jan 2026

Games SSD

WD Black SN850X 8TB (2.4x base)

  • Base £450
  • £700 in 01/2026
  • £1,060 in 03/2026

OR Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB

OS & Program SSD

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (1.7x base)

  • Base £260
  • £315 in 01/2026
  • £440 in 03/2026

Fans

Noctua 140mm x 8

  • Base £264
  • £264 in 02/2026

Case

NZXT H6 Flow (1.1x base)

  • Base £80
  • £90 in 02/2026

PSU

Corsair HX1200i Platinum (2025) (1.2x base)

  • Base £210
  • £245 in 03/2026
  • Purchased for £200 new

GPU (1.3x base)

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB (1.3x base)

  • Base £700
  • £900 in 03/2026
  • Purchased for £520 used

Hypothetical:

High Capacity HDD

Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB, 7200RPM, CMR (1.3x base)

  • Base £480
  • £510 in 02/2026
  • ST20000NT001

Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB

Xbox Expansion SSD

  • Seagate 2TB
  • £200 in 02/2026 (for standard 2TB Seagate NVME)
  • Purchased for £267 new

Notes

base = ~Sep/Oct 2025, just before hell
RAM eBay Sellers ~ 2x base

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

This is very close to my exact PC build. I bought in December of 2024 because I was sure Trump with fuck everything up with his tariffs. While that ended up being true, AI bullshit made it far worse.