Shiznizzle HideOut said: that 10K rig is WAY overpriced. Wow We are fast approaching the carbon bicycle industry levels of rip off. Tour de France bikes are now upwards of 15.000 dollars and by now far more likely to be 20.000 dollars. The manufacturers justify these prices by saying that the research and development that goes into the bikes costs so much. I am not buying that tosh. Carbon strands is not new tech and neither are the weaves that they use. In addition the bikes are all made in china now where the labour is cheap. Maybe %1 of carbon bikes are made outside of china and they could almost justify the price at this point. Also, there are actual cars and motorcycles who are cheaper than Tour de France bikes now so compare research and development costs of those with a piece of carbon fiber. The rest of the bike is wheels and the groupset which are out of their control Corporations, since covid, have seen that people will pay whatever price tag they stick on things now so we are seeing all fields do this. Including spinning rust HDD manufacturers now who claim that due to "AI demand" their HDD are going up in price by a third. Non sense. The speed at which a HDD accesses its own info is rather slow so they should show us those HDD enabled AI clusters. They cant. They do not exist and this is a classic case of everybody else is price gauging so we shall too. Greed. It appears i wont be buying anything else computer related after my 1440 p monitor for a long time now. I have two other backup machines capable of playing modern games now and main in in AM5. Reply
bit_user Shiznizzle said: so we are seeing all fields do this. Including spinning rust HDD manufacturers now who claim that due to "AI demand" their HDD are going up in price by a third. Non sense. The speed at which a HDD accesses its own info is rather slow so they should show us those HDD enabled AI clusters. They cant. They do not exist and this is a classic case of everybody else is price gauging so we shall too. In one sense, it's a matter of having more data that they need to backup, and HDDs are the backup solution. If you were right that they're just charging more because they feel like it, then we should see their unit volume decline, when they issue their quarterly reports. If they still ship about the same number of platters as before, then it means they're getting price-insensitive demand from somewhere and I don't see where else that would be than the AI/datacenter build out boom. You have read about more datacenters getting built, right? They need to fill those with machines and those machines' data needs to get backed up somehow. So, it's really not surprising and aligns with what we've heard about demand for DRAM and SSDs. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/wisconsin-towns-signed-underhanded-ndas-while-negotiating-billion-dollar-data-centers Shiznizzle said: Greed. I'd just point out that market economies deal with a surge in demand by increasing prices. The communist solution is rationing. As much as I hate price spikes, I think I wouldn't want to live in a communist system. In the long run, the market economy ends up being cheaper. BTW, did you notice how the price of HDDs crashed about 3 years ago? That's the other side of the coin. Moral of the story: stock up on these things when they get cheap, because you never know what kinds of supply shocks might come along. Reply
LordVile Zaranthos said: I really prefer beige cases and a lot of the retro designs. I really hate that my new build didn't have HDD LED. It also bothers me that I can't disable all the obnoxious LED lighting by default and have to run software to disable all the light pollution. Creative AE-5 Plus requires loading Sound Blaster Command after reboots or wake from sleep or the LED's are on by default. I guess I'm not an anime kid who craves visual stimulation, see through glass computer cases, and Christmas tree lights strung all over every computer build… Does the new build actually have a HDD though? Reply
bit_user LordVile said: Does the new build actually have a HDD though? With SATA SSDs (and optical drives, I might add), they still show I/O activity, which I think was the point. It's only called "HDD light" for historical reasons. The value is that by looking at it, you can see if the computer's slowness is due to heavy I/O. Another use case for it is noticing it's going crazy and then checking Task Manager (or top, in Linux) to see what's going on. Sometimes, it'll just turn out to be a virus scanner. Other times, it'll actually be due to a process consuming too much memory and forcing the system to start swapping. By acting swiftly, you could close the offending program, before it starves out something else and causes it to crash. Reply
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