This caught me by surprise as I recently filled up a hard drive and figured I would see if there is anything on sale as I am in no rush since I bought a few high-capacity drives when they were on sale. But the prices looked crazy as normally a good teal for an external drive would be about $20 per TB. Now there are many of them floating at about $50 per TB as normally you would expect tat for SSD drives.<\/p>\n
People are saying it\u2019s because of AI demands like with the RAM prices, but either way it is making it almost out of reach for the average person to just make their own computer systems as an example. Kind of makes me wonder if I should heavily invest in more tech items during Black Friday as this AI bubble isn\u2019t going away anytime soon by the looks of it and you will have to pay a lot more if you end up having to buy something right away.<\/p>\n
It is already making me think if I should find different ways to compress my work as I have often kept the highest quality footage for archival sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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