Oh yeah no if your current computer is working, it would be dumb as hell to build now. Because of bitcoin miners fucking up the market, my PC's parts have appreciated by almost 50% since I built it almost 2 years ago.
Also, when you do build, monitor diskprices.com for your PCIe 4 nVME primary drive @<$150/TB and diskprices.com+shucks.top+Newegg are worth monitoring for big, enterprisey HDDs @ <$16/TB.
If you ignore White label drives, <7200 RPM drives, and other garbage, occsionally you'll find like a 14 TB exos @15/TB.
Don't buy HDDs too far ahead of when you'll be able to test them because they have very high early failure rates, it's easier to deal with a RMA than warranty.
Because of bitcoin miners fucking up the market, my PC’s parts have appreciated by almost 50% since I built it almost 2 years ago.
lol, I built mine at the end of 2017. I didn't know Bitcoin was spiking, and it was my first build so I didn't know what normal prices were. I now know I paid way too much for some of the parts, especially the RAM. On the upside, if I knew Bitcoin was spiking I probably would have spent my Bitcoin to buy it. Instead it's worth a lot more now.
Also, when you do build, monitor diskprices.com
Oh cool, I knew about shucks.top, but not diskprices.com. I've been waiting for 12+TB@$15/TB for a bit now just for more space on my current computer. I kinda regret not getting that 18TB for $280 deal.
Don’t buy HDDs too far ahead of when you’ll be able to test them because they have very high early failure rates, it’s easier to deal with a RMA than warranty.
Oh yeah, at worst I can take my measly 2TB HDD out of my computer and slap in the new one. What's the recommended way to test them? I only know of h2testw, but I think that's more for flash drives and SD cards.
Oh yeah no if your current computer is working, it would be dumb as hell to build now. Because of bitcoin miners fucking up the market, my PC's parts have appreciated by almost 50% since I built it almost 2 years ago.
Also, when you do build, monitor diskprices.com for your PCIe 4 nVME primary drive @<$150/TB and diskprices.com+shucks.top+Newegg are worth monitoring for big, enterprisey HDDs @ <$16/TB.
If you ignore White label drives, <7200 RPM drives, and other garbage, occsionally you'll find like a 14 TB exos @15/TB.
Don't buy HDDs too far ahead of when you'll be able to test them because they have very high early failure rates, it's easier to deal with a RMA than warranty.
lol, I built mine at the end of 2017. I didn't know Bitcoin was spiking, and it was my first build so I didn't know what normal prices were. I now know I paid way too much for some of the parts, especially the RAM. On the upside, if I knew Bitcoin was spiking I probably would have spent my Bitcoin to buy it. Instead it's worth a lot more now.
Oh cool, I knew about shucks.top, but not diskprices.com. I've been waiting for 12+TB@$15/TB for a bit now just for more space on my current computer. I kinda regret not getting that 18TB for $280 deal.
Oh yeah, at worst I can take my measly 2TB HDD out of my computer and slap in the new one. What's the recommended way to test them? I only know of h2testw, but I think that's more for flash drives and SD cards.