a warning for storage purchasing
attention! the bright new cryptocurrency (chia) is starting to kicking in!!! BUY A HARD DRIVE (big size 4tb>) ASAP! BEFORE THEY GET TOO EXPENSIVE! you know how awful was the gpu situation just imagine that with storage too i am saying this above because i saw an WD gold 8tb going the much higher than its launch price for the first time , this was the highest price recorded from amazon's price checker
Legutóbb szerkesztette: tonimark; 2021. máj. 17., 10:46
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crypto loonies
Legutóbb szerkesztette: C2Dan88; 2021. máj. 17., 10:38
yep i am taking a screenshot of price graph right now
heres a link for a WD gold price (8tb) price graph (price-time) in my country: https://imgur.com/HnIMjMx
Legutóbb szerkesztette: tonimark; 2021. máj. 17., 10:43
Prices are starting to jump here aswell already.

The WD40EFAX costed 110 euro sold for nearly 1 year, now it jumped to 115.

These simple minded parasites thinking they can earn easy money.. Meanwhile billionaires like Elon Musk are abusing their memelord status to influence crypto prices and fill their own pockets.

Crypto should be worthless since the generation of it provides nothing of value while utilizing enormous amounts of resources nor is it rarely used for anything other then investing.

I can't wait for this crap to become regulated.
Legutóbb szerkesztette: Omega; 2021. máj. 17., 10:50
There's been a price issue since the whole covid stuff. Drives I've seen before even some of the new crypto, can also sometimes wildly fluctuate in prices. 2-8TBs are usually fairly affordable compared to what they used to be.

Also summer price rises are nothing new, RAM usually goes up when it gets warmer out/in the summer, especially with the shortages a lot of prices on many things are affected, not so much crypto.
Mr. Gentlebot eredeti hozzászólása:
There's been a price issue since the whole covid stuff. Drives I've seen before even some of the new crypto, can also sometimes wildly fluctuate in prices. 2-8TBs are usually fairly affordable compared to what they used to be.

Also summer price rises are nothing new, RAM usually goes up when it gets warmer out/in the summer, especially with the shortages a lot of prices on many things are affected, not so much crypto.

there are a few cryptos that have used storage as a compute means, however they never really took off the way they would need to for mass market penetration and everyone hurling themselves at the currency.

as for current drives, im looking at 12-16tb and they are more or less in line with what I paid for them.

right now, seagate exos 10x 10tb drive is around 200-220$, that's what I would recommend,

now before we go into brands are bad or good, all brands tend to have the same failure rates give or take, 95% of drives that fail before part failure fail at crib death (first week) or within the first 3 months of use, passed that nearly all make it to part failure. I always recommend not using a drive for anything mission critical the first 3 months its in the computer keep it on and test it fully, followed by light use possibly mirroring data to it, and once 3 months is up you can transition it to full use drive.
The drive I wanted (18tb helium) is through the roof in price right now. I think it actually doubled :(
Hardware Hero™ eredeti hozzászólása:
The drive I wanted (18tb helium) is through the roof in price right now. I think it actually doubled :(

that's one of it not the biggest hdd you can get without going into 'if you have to ask you can't afford it' pricing. drives like that are always going to be inflated in terms of cost and fluctuate wildly depending on time of year and whos buying.

looking at chia... its stupid, but also looking at it from a cost to use sense, its probably going to be cheaper than bitcoin and others, so people are going to flock to it more so then anything else and sit on it, it is, as of now, on a downward trend, if nothing happens to spike it, people will stop doing that crap soon enough.

honestly countries really need to stop beating around the bush, crypto is an invasive currency that serves to undermine your own, there is no place for it, and the sooner they do something the sooner we can stop pissing finite resources away on crap that doesn't exist.
I know a bunch of guys who jumped on chia 2 months ago, the one who invested the least has made $80k so far with others exceeding $100k.

I'm looking into it myself, but the barrier for entry has gone up alot and hdd prices are going up weekly because of it, and frankly, it confuses me, you need a 5950x or 10980xe as a basis ideally, 64GB of ram 6TB of nvme and atleast 50-100TB of hdd's to really get started with any chance of success they reckon!
Which is pretty nuts.

Where etherium is printing money, chia is printing lottery tickets right now as there are no 'safe' pools to join, the guy I was talking to yesterday has 38 chia coins still he is holding.

It's mostly large capacity drives, so, really anything consumer is going to be fairly safe as they want 16 and 18TB drives
ill just download more hardrives if i need them
Monk eredeti hozzászólása:
I know a bunch of guys who jumped on chia 2 months ago, the one who invested the least has made $80k so far with others exceeding $100k.
There are also a ton of guys who jumped into the wrong thing and lost a ton of money. Cryptos are like buying a lottery ticket. Don't let the success stories fool you. Only play with money you can afford and are willing to lose.
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Monk eredeti hozzászólása:
I know a bunch of guys who jumped on chia 2 months ago, the one who invested the least has made $80k so far with others exceeding $100k.
There are also a ton of guys who jumped into the wrong thing and lost a ton of money. Cryptos are like buying a lottery ticket. Don't let the success stories fool you. Only play with money you can afford and are willing to lose.

Yeah, you are exactly right, one who got the others involved us aparantly widely known in crypto circles and has made a living off if it for a while now, they made so much as they hit in early before the hardware and the chia coins themselves exploded in value, meaning that even if I jumped in my return would be a fraction of theirs.

As I said it's like farming for lotto tickets, the guy I spoke with at length with hasn't got any hits in 3 weeks now, while his mate got 5 in the last 4 days, so there is a definite ammount of random luck as right now you basically have to do it solo as there are no secure pools you can join and with an entry fee of a good £3-5k atleast, that's a hell of a gamble, only reason I'm intrigued is that I have a system that I could use as a base already, vastly dropping the cost, but, I'm not sure about the risks tbh as it would still ve several thousand pounds.

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Why blame it on mining, it's most properly greedy retailers, using mining as an excuse to up the prices.

it doesn't help that idiots buy items at over inflated prices.

Aparantly the drives at best buy went up $50 last week and a further $100 this week, as its a mining system that will burn out drives, its an important and very expensive factor to consider.

It seems very likely that it will go the way of bitcoin very rapidly where only giant warehouses can get it effectively.

Of the guys I know making serious money on it, they are all running atleast 3 pc's with 5950x's or 10980xe's (the later needing to be watercooled with a custom loop to get the best out of them) with 4-6TB of nvme drives and a total of over 250TB of hdd's and are buying more weekly to maintain there rates.

At that stage its already slowing down for them, so viability to jump in is low, if everything matched up to the predicted rates on calculations, my mate should gain $17000 a month, but as I said, he's had nothing the past 3 weeks...
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