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I’m not putting in more effort than you clowns unless I feel like it lol

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  • Like one of the guys says in the comments, highly unlikely. We’re already seeing some downward pressure on prices the past couple of months. The market simply does not support another 90% of hikes (between this guy’s Q3 and Q4 predictions)

    Chinese brands are still producing and still adding supply to the global supply chain. Countries that can utilize chinese ram will buy them because they are cheaper, and they will keep producing more because they still can get a price premium from all the pent up demand.

    Still gonna be a few years before prices come back down, but i’ll be amazed if we see much more of an increase.









  • There’s what companies admit to publicly, and then there’s what they’re working on behind closed doors.

    Most EULA have vague lines like “We will use your data to improve our services” which translates to something like: Your data is used in the services we sell.

    Perhaps there would be a legal argument against shit like this, but how do you prove it in court? Even if you get discovery the odds of them offering up database tables they’ve hidden away that key up users to the data is never gonna happen. You’d have to report it as an insider.

    Maybe we should be offering up $10m+ whistleblower bounties for stuff like this, because short of giving someone a golden parachute they’re sure as shit not going to lose their careers over it.




  • I have a pile of spinning disks that were online for less than ten years under low usage load that failed. I have bins and bins full of them at work with enterprise drives too.

    I have personally had a single ssd fail in 15 years, it was an SX6000 that died from controller issues. My first ones were 64GB ones back in the infancy of SSDs. The controllers have come a long way and speeds are now 10-100x faster and much more reliable. Never, ever had one go bad from TBW personally or professionally. I’ve never even met someone who has gotten that to happen, the controllers usually go long before the NAND.

    12 years is still beyond the lifetime of a typical computer. Even if you do not have component failures you start spending more money on power to run these things than it would cost to replace them with faster, larger capacity newer systems that use less energy for more oompf. Only people with free or nearly free power are immune to this which is not common.

    I’m not saying just throw out all the old systems though, but most people aren’t gonna limp along on a 12 year old system as their daily driver. It might be ok for basic web browsing, word processing and email… but not much more than that. If it’s a laptop it’s gonna be dog slow.


  • The idea that hibernation is going to cause substantial SSD wear is ludicrous on all but the smallest SSDs in systems with large amounts of RAM.

    Hibernation is only going to be saving ram in memory, so for most consumer systems 8, 16 or 32GB. Most SSDs nowadays are rated for hundreds to thousands of terabytes written as an effective life so you would need to hibernate hundreds of thousands of times. Even an aggressively low lifespan drive like a 256GB with ~500TBW would last over 18,000 full 32GB writes. Let’s pretend you hibernate four times a day every day, every year. 365*4 = 1460 hibernations per year. 18,000/1460 = 12.32 years. Long past the lifespan of a computer. No spinning disk is likely to survive this long either.

    They even call it out in their article with their own math of twice a year and come up with 25 years of life. Just not something to worry about, at all, for almost any practical use case.