The bubble cannot burst fast enough. I'm tired of these higher hardware costs because of a feature that nobody wants.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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My fear is that this is only going to become the new pricing floor. Someone suggested that these companies are going to systematically scoop up nearly all remaining tech in an attempt to sell cloud computing etc as the only option for the average consumer (due to lack of affordable or perhaps even available tech)...
I wouldn't be surprised to find out they don't want us having any access to our own computers etc because they can only control so much of what we can do with them.
I think digital fascism is a likely motivator at this point. The ceos have all been hanging out with the political fascists, so there’s not much reason to think otherwise.
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It sounds conspiratorial to say it seems like they are trying to crash the consumer market so that computing will be entirely dependent on their services, but I mean…
It's because the average USA citizen is economically irrelevant. The money is in the top 10% and the big corpos, especially AI with all the money sloshing around there. The 90% consumer market doesn't matter as much these days.
As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us. We believe in our foundational myth that they'll always need us somehow, even as they go out of their way to make it utterly obvious that they won't be happy until they can replace literally everything us dirty poor working class people do. When they no longer need us, they will start to dispose of us. Arguably, they've begun doing that already. War is good for business, and for population control.
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It's classic rent seeking. We will own nothing, just lease a low-powered client device from our phone carrier or ISP and do everything in the cloud with AI.
That seems to be the plan from these megacorps anyways.
I was thinking on that yesterday.Mass local storage affordable? No no no, better to drive those prices way up so that we can sell you "cloud" services instead.
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They are trying and they are succeeding. But the bright side is - it's about resources. Storage, computation. You can run most useful things on an RPi. I suppose home PC market will become more similar to 80s again. Less power, more dreaming.
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Guess I waited a hair too long to pull the trigger on a NAS setup
My thoughts exactly, but it’s only going to get worse :/
I needed to buy another 20TB drive. I paid 100$ more for THE SAME MODEL i bought two years ago.
All of this just to automate the process of enslaving the world.
Optical drives next I guess lol
What's even going on anymore
I read news of SATA SSDs spiking in price just a few hours ago. Gonna go to sleep now, expecting a spike in floppy disk prices when I wake up and punch cards tomorrow evening.
Didn't Samsung say that they weren't making consumer Sata ssds anymore? Jfc we really are going to the whole "you own nothing".
Unless they use IP to prevent new producers from entering the market, there should be a response eventually.
HDDs are precision machinery, of course, but not lost alien technology only old big companies can make.
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I'm saving up now to afford the lease on a nice certified pre-owned Dell in a couple years. My buddy Dave works over at the dealership so I should be able to lock in a good rate. And hey, with their super lease-to-own options maybe I'll be able to keep it at the end! That'd be nice you know... something to hand down to the kids when they're old enough for their computing license. Fingers crossed! 🤞
We're going backwards in time. Computers use to cost multi thousand dollars and you needed a loan to buy one.
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Dude.
Fuck ALL of this.
God fucking damnit seriously.
I've been putting off building a new pc. More and more it looks like my 10 year old machine has got a few more years left in it.
I just built an am4 machine from mostly old parts I had kicking around. Was happy I went a little to crazy a few years ago. No way I'd of been able to do it with prices now
Yeah, my trick is to save up and try to buy the 2nd best components as much as possible. The very best will always have a shiny new thing tax attached to them, but 2nd best is where the real value comes in. Granted I'm not building gaming pcs, so this isn't too unreasonable. The current market won't let me get close to what I'd actually like though.
eBay helps too. I picked up 16gb of ddr4 ram for someone the other day for $40 and got myself a cpu cooler for my build for $60 less than brand new. It was just open box so basically new. Takes patience but there are still deals to be found out there.
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my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess
Same with my 4x 16TBs in my NAS.
God I hope it will crash only once the bubble bursts to high heaven and a disk costs 20% of the current MSRP :|
I was waiting for them to come down in order to get another for my NAS. Now they’re gonna go up again instead. Fuck me
This isn't a huge increase. It's not on the order of what just happened with RAM.
According to a report from Digitimes Asia (quoting Nikkei), HDD contract prices jumped roughly 4% quarter over quarter in Q4 2025.
How tf are hdds going up in price
Did the data centers somehow buy up all the sdds and decided nah we need more, lets buy up all the hdds too
Like ???
At this rate i gotta start grabbing my old drives to reuse because apparently 2010 equipment is back on the plate or smth
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I'm just gonna say, check out shucks.top, just got two 14tb drives for 160 each.
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Remember when buying a PC was semi-affordable? That was nice. Now it's transitioning into a luxury product.
For the vast part of the world, that is not the us or the EU, a PC, specially a very powerful one like for gaming, has always been an expensive luxury item. You're just joining the club late.
Those other parts are turbo fucked now though. I guess I’ll keep my video game consoles going because at least they will always be able to play games; especially all my older ones.
Dude that steam machine going to end up costing $5,000 for a $500 pc.
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Really?
CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS FOR ONCE (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
First SSDs and now HDDs too?
Well if you can't get SSDs, what are you going to use for storage? I doubt tape drives are best as daily drivers.
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4% is hardly a spike in the scheme of things. That's just inflation when things aren't really coming down in price any more.
I bought a drive a year or so ago and was surprised how expensive it was. At some point the price just stopped dropping. Presumably there's a limit on how cheap you can make a spinning rust drive before it just doesn't work any more.
Theory: the push to get everyone and everything on clouds where they can control it just “happens” to coincide with this development.
prepare yourselves, nerds! buy your woodworking and farming tools now before those go up too!
if we all just turn off from the internet and technology in general, AI won't have content to steal from or a market to sell it to.
this is the way.
Great, now computers in general are just going to be stupid expensive
Is this like the last wave before the entire thing collapses or what?
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