• ravhall
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        28 days ago

        It’s the cost of greed.

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        28 days ago

        This isn’t bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.

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            28 days ago

            Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 …

            The reason it costs so much is because the chip industry is limiting supply again again to drive prices up after a few years of over producing. Not because there is something fancy in this drive.