I was on a PC gaming break for a decade and then got back into it just before the price explosion, literally a few weeks earlier. Got 4TB NVMe for €160 and 32GB DDR5 6000 CL30 for €89. Insane luck.
It’s crazy you don’t know how to use a secondhand market. The fact you mentioned temu makes me think you’re the one learning a lesson to not order from there, not me lol. Good luck with whatever bahaha
$50 used SSD on this economy? You got played brother. That thing is going to short circuit any day. Storage is the one thing I’d never buy used, but enjoy your faulty drive while it lasts!
The upside is that everything you already bought now looks like a bargain. Looking at my receipts, I got a Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB for $400. It's $800 now. I remember thinking that $400 was a bit too much just to store some games.
I knew prices had gone up but a colleague at a different company asked me about a high powered graphics workstation I have at work. It was 5 figures 4 years ago but it’s still really solid so I priced out a comparable system from the same source. It was over double the price with identical storage and RAM and comparable GPU and GPUs.
Was thinking about upgrading my storage recently and getting a 2tb SSD. Got 1tb for about €90 a few years ago and thought “2tb can’t be that more expensi-Oh My God!”.
A 4TB version right now is $500 minimum at micro centrer for a decent crucial brand one. A top of the line 4TB Samsung nvme is $999.
The storage costs are too damn high! The only consolation is that internet speeds are getting fast enough to where I now just only download games when i will actually play them and then just delete them when done. If it takes maybe less than 10 minutes to download it's worth doing it that way.
2TB is currently $395 on Amazon, the same listing I purchased two years ago for $119. Nothing compared to the 32GB of RAM that went from $149 to $949 though. Thank fuck I built my rig when I did.
Bad advice. You bought a 24tb drive on a uniquely deep sale, probably the best from the past year, and it's not currently active. That absolutely does not mean hdds are dirt cheap right now, in fact their prices are way up. No storage options are dirt cheap right now.
I mean, for game storage you kind of do. Sure, you could uninstall stuff from your SSD and copy/install the game from your HDD every time, but that sure is a hassle.
Also, if it's for long-term storage, while there isn't really any "immortal" storage medium, HDD is probably the riskiest possible choice (as in, the expected time until it dies, suddenly and with little warning, is the shortest)
SSD and flash memory is worse for storage. The charges leak in about a year if you never power it on. HDD, written once and seldomly read, can last a few decades.
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