Theory: the push to get everyone and everything on clouds where they can control it just “happens” to coincide with this development.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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Great, now computers in general are just going to be stupid expensive
Really?
CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS FOR ONCE (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
Dude.
Fuck ALL of this.
God fucking damnit seriously.
my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess
Same with my 4x 16TBs in my NAS.
God I hope it will craah only once the bubble bursts to high heaven and a disk costs 20% of the current MSRP :|
Dude that steam machine going to end up costing $5,000 for a $500 pc.
If they already got the supplies, they could leverage the situation in their favour
You know they haven't.
As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again
I'm just gonna say, check out shucks.top, just got two 14tb drives for 160 each.
If they are SMR, they are basically DOA (for my use case)
None of the WD 14tb have been SMR as of yet. Neither have the two 18tb drives I've shucked.
Like 2 years ago that was just a normal price ffs
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It sounds conspiratorial to say it seems like they are trying to crash the consumer market so that computing will be entirely dependent on their services, but I mean…
I think that seems obvious, not conspiratorial.
They want to make their services cheaper for them to run, and they want to sell them for more money, while buying up hardware so nobody else can compete with them or not depend on them.
I was thinking on that yesterday.Mass local storage affordable? No no no, better to drive those prices way up so that we can sell you "cloud" services instead.
My company is needing to go away from external storage for local only backups, as 2,4" 4TB HDDs are shit and unreliable and 4TB SSDs (like Samsung T5 Evo) are going from 200€ to 600€ (per disk. And we need 3 of those).
Instead we are pivoting to S3(-compatible)-Cloud as the main off-site storage.
I am certainly not thrillee but on the otger side, customers arent willing to lug around 3,5" HDD cases so....What else is there?
It's classic rent seeking. We will own nothing, just lease a low-powered client device from our phone carrier or ISP and do everything in the cloud with AI.
That seems to be the plan from these megacorps anyways.
It's because the average USA citizen is economically irrelevant. The money is in the top 10% and the big corpos, especially AI with all the money sloshing around there. The 90% consumer market doesn't matter as much these days.
As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us. We believe in our foundational myth that they'll always need us somehow, even as they go out of their way to make it utterly obvious that they won't be happy until they can replace literally everything us dirty poor working class people do. When they no longer need us, they will start to dispose of us. Arguably, they've begun doing that already. War is good for business, and for population control.
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The bubble cannot burst fast enough. I'm tired of these higher hardware costs because of a feature that nobody wants.
My fear is that this is only going to become the new pricing floor. Someone suggested that these companies are going to systematically scoop up nearly all remaining tech in an attempt to sell cloud computing etc as the only option for the average consumer (due to lack of affordable or perhaps even available tech)...
I wouldn't be surprised to find out they don't want us having any access to our own computers etc because they can only control so much of what we can do with them.
I think digital fascism is a likely motivator at this point. The ceos have all been hanging out with the political fascists, so there’s not much reason to think otherwise.
I've also seen this perspective online and I really hope it's just a theory and not reality.
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Is this like the last wave before the entire thing collapses or what?
Oh my sweet summer child
4% is hardly a spike in the scheme of things. That's just inflation when things aren't really coming down in price any more.
I bought a drive a year or so ago and was surprised how expensive it was. At some point the price just stopped dropping. Presumably there's a limit on how cheap you can make a spinning rust drive before it just doesn't work any more.
Lol, only 4%. Ram more than doubled.
Remember when buying a PC was semi-affordable? That was nice. Now it's transitioning into a luxury product.
For the vast part of the world, that is not the us or the EU, a PC, specially a very powerful one like for gaming, has always been an expensive luxury item. You're just joining the club late.
Those other parts are turbo fucked now though. I guess I’ll keep my video game consoles going because at least they will always be able to play games; especially all my older ones.
I was waiting for them to come down in order to get another for my NAS. Now they’re gonna go up again instead. Fuck me
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I'm saving up now to afford the lease on a nice certified pre-owned Dell in a couple years. My buddy Dave works over at the dealership so I should be able to lock in a good rate. And hey, with their super lease-to-own options maybe I'll be able to keep it at the end! That'd be nice you know... something to hand down to the kids when they're old enough for their computing license. Fingers crossed! 🤞
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Optical drives next I guess lol
What's even going on anymore
I read news of SATA SSDs spiking in price just a few hours ago. Gonna go to sleep now, expecting a spike in floppy disk prices when I wake up and punch cards tomorrow evening.
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I've been putting off building a new pc. More and more it looks like my 10 year old machine has got a few more years left in it.
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