For our 6 month future contracts we’re seeing wholesale prices for SSDs that are 2.5x what we paid all the way back in 2022. A 2TB m2 drive for a June contract is showing $350 wholesale now. Up $25 in just the last 2 days. For consumers you can tack more onto that for retail pricing… which means you can expect to pay $400-450 for a 2TB drive later this spring.
It’s going to make things like SteamBox and Game Consoles feel dead in the water because they’re going to take a triple hit between RAM, SSDs and VRAM.
The irony is this will probably push more people to the “cloud”. Especially small businesses. Which will further drive up consumer prices.
NameWasTaken8 on
Thank you Sam Altman
IndividualB00t on
I am not upgrading my laptop for atleast 2 years. Thanks to the AI companies.
swattwenty on
All of this, for a shitty tech product that has yet to earn money for anyone using it.
What a fucking joke.
moonduckk on
This was expected
Humanine on
They will price regular household consumer’s out of owning a home PC lab so they can push everyone to owning less powerful “cloud” access computers which are easily surveilled, not easily modified, and rely on them granting you access to the internet (the infrastructure for which was paid for by your taxes). They want to charge you click by click again.
They hate you. They want you to own nothing and be miserable.
pocketjacks on
I had one of the bad batch 13th gen Intel chips that finally crapped out on me the day before Christmas Eve. I ended up buying an AMD 9800 combo at Micro Center with an ASUS Motherboard and 32GB of DDR5. I was pissed at the time, but I think I upgraded at the last viable time.
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For our 6 month future contracts we’re seeing wholesale prices for SSDs that are 2.5x what we paid all the way back in 2022. A 2TB m2 drive for a June contract is showing $350 wholesale now. Up $25 in just the last 2 days. For consumers you can tack more onto that for retail pricing… which means you can expect to pay $400-450 for a 2TB drive later this spring.
It’s going to make things like SteamBox and Game Consoles feel dead in the water because they’re going to take a triple hit between RAM, SSDs and VRAM.
The irony is this will probably push more people to the “cloud”. Especially small businesses. Which will further drive up consumer prices.
Thank you Sam Altman
I am not upgrading my laptop for atleast 2 years. Thanks to the AI companies.
All of this, for a shitty tech product that has yet to earn money for anyone using it.
What a fucking joke.
This was expected
They will price regular household consumer’s out of owning a home PC lab so they can push everyone to owning less powerful “cloud” access computers which are easily surveilled, not easily modified, and rely on them granting you access to the internet (the infrastructure for which was paid for by your taxes). They want to charge you click by click again.
They hate you. They want you to own nothing and be miserable.
I had one of the bad batch 13th gen Intel chips that finally crapped out on me the day before Christmas Eve. I ended up buying an AMD 9800 combo at Micro Center with an ASUS Motherboard and 32GB of DDR5. I was pissed at the time, but I think I upgraded at the last viable time.
I feel like AI is ruining our lives.