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Divebombed by a fuckin crow again this morning :0:
I see you started a new one early
:lou: hehehe
:booger:
A new hang out thread has been made.
Bought a couple of 1TB 9.5mm laptop drives earlier, went back a few minutes later (after a bit of a think about it) to buy some more and they were all gone :facepalm: damn
Spoiler warning:
Yeah they were only $13usd each shipped.
At least I got 2 anyway.
Old HGST, they are 7200rpm sata though.
I'm going to use one drive in this Toshiba laptop I got as junk recently, I've also got 16GB DDR3 on the way for that too.
The other drive idk... I could use it in one of my PS3's with full CFW or maybe my RGH 360 :shrug: haven't decided.
I could use it in another HP laptop I have here I guess. Choices.
I should've just bought at least 4 or more, I'm an idiot :lol
Oh yeah for sure. I grabbed a 4TB ext when I was in town and it was $20aud more than last time I got one (last year?).
All the larger drives I looked at were ridiculous prices imo. Nothing cheap on ebay.
What I paid for those laptop drives is way more than what I would normally pay for similar stuff through work (usually $1 each), but drives are getting harder to find there.
I guess most people are pulling drives from whatever before donating. The Toshiba laptop I got still had 500GB drive in it but I needed to swap it out due to surface errors.
I also salvaged a 3.5" 500GB drive from a PVR at work on the same day.
But most stuff: PVR's, PS3 and 360 consoles seem to have drives pulled when we get them atm. It's only really a recent thing.
Times are tough for a lot of people I guess.
I'd love to get a 10TB hard-drive. To store all my games on.
The 16GB of DDR3 (Corsair) I got was nearly half the price of what it would normally fetch.
Listing had errors, I contacted the seller to point those out and to clarify what was there, made a cheap offer and it was accepted immediately :lol
Ooooo, new thread
It would be nice if prices started dropping faster since sales are down. I expect they'll milk it out as much as possible.
Sales are down prices go up. Sales are up prices go down.
Prices also go up for reasons like short supply (the Thai floods years ago) and materials costs (which are going up).
Steel in particular I suspect is more expensive since the Chinese unofficially blocked coal imports from Australia. Both types iirc, for steel (coking) and electricity generation (thermal).
Largest exporter of coking coal and second largest exporter of thermal coal.
It was at the end of this May, a sale combined with a promo code. Prices are currently sitting around $20 - $25 depending on the drive and capacity.
Old stock you might be able to get cheap. Like it has been in a warehouse in NA for 6-12 months already.
New stuff; the costs involved actually making it and transporting it are higher now. And the higher prices usually persist sometime after costs drop anyway.
Chinese economy growth is pretty low right now, technically it's closer to a stall than it was during the first year of covid.
There probably will be cost increases but I think there's room to drop.