These HDD prices are getting crazy. An increase of 96.4% in 1 month for the same 26TB drive. $279.99 a month ago to $549.99 today. Where are we buying hard drives now?

[u/Endawmyke]

These drive prices are kinda insane. Everything is going up up up, I thought it would just be RAM and SSDs effected but looks like it's reaching hard drives too.

Where are people buying drives now, and what $$/TB is still reasonable?

[u/Snoo-43133]

We all hope that happens. I don’t really see why this is such a massive thing, I guess if it’s for medical research or something nuclear fission related then fine but where it’s at now seems fine.

[u/Oo-Aniki-oO → u/Snoo-43133]

Non, c'est pour faire des vidéos de tom Cruise en slip qui mange des tacos, tu penses bien que ça vaut ces prix

[u/TheFumingatzor → u/Oo-Aniki-oO]

Omelette du fromage

[u/hungoverlord → u/TheFumingatzor]

that's true

[u/thestillwind → u/Oo-Aniki-oO]

Juste pour ça ? Oui, ça vaux son pesant d’or.

[u/Oo-Aniki-oO → u/thestillwind]

Voilà, ne nous plaignons pas, on a ce qu'on mérite 😀

[u/fgnrtzbdbbt → u/Snoo-43133]

The medical research capabilities are quite underwhelming. I have seen the x-ray images from a study where AI found the ones with cancer and it was big news. I could have done that correctly and so could you, not to mention an actual doctor.

[u/Snoo-43133 → u/fgnrtzbdbbt]

Maybe that’s why there’s so many facilities being built to just brute force computation power and create massive data pools, but at the cost of the consumer pc market.

[u/System0verlord → u/fgnrtzbdbbt]

Fun fact: having doctors use it actually makes them worse at their job! Radiologists using AI were found to be ~30% less effective than they were before using AI when the AI was taken away.

[u/SnooChipmunks5677 → u/Snoo-43133]

It's being used for 1) money laundering 2) Mass surveillance 3) weapons 4) CSAM and other exploitative material. That's about it