Haven’t got my $1,000 yet.
Being recommended such a small hard drive should be considered a crime worth $1000.
Let AI take monetary decisions for companies
AI accountants would be pretty cool to have for small businesses tho. Like, if I wanna open up a company, it would be cool if I had a thing that could take care of taxes and all that kinda shit, not big decisions or budget allocations, but take care of all the paperwork
Lol… good luck with that, they don’t even honor their mistakes. I once found a typoed price (brand new laptop dirt cheap). No more “false advertising” claims these days, your order is just canceled without any stated reason, and without recourse.
The law has the concept of consideration and there is a level of judgment used on these kinds of things. Intent is part of the law too. Which means if someone falsely puts a cheap price for a product to get you into a store (or something like that) they’ll likely be on the hook for that, it’s false advertising. But if someone simply made a typo and the price on offer doesn’t line up to reasonable consideration, then it’s not binding. There was no intent to deceive, and the price isn’t reasonable consideration for the product.
So while there may be times you may be able to benefit from someone making a mistake, there will be many times you won’t. That’s not a bad thing since the same law protects you if you make a mistake. If someone puts into the fine print of a contact that you should give them all of your possessions, and you didn’t notice it, the law would also throw that out because they didn’t offer reasonable consideration for your possessions.
So you don’t have recourse (nor should you) in the scenario where someone made an honest mistake like with a typo. Sucks that for a moment you thought you were getting a laptop for a ridiculously cheap price, but think about what it would mean on the other end. You’d be getting a laptop without paying a reasonable price for it, the company would have to eat the cost, and some poor bastard would probably be fired for making a typo. Is a cheap laptop really worth someone else losing their job?
recommending a mechanical hard drive in 2024 is crazy
I mean if you need 14TBs or something you don’t really have an alternative unless you’re rich, but yea what a terrible AI recommending <2TB spinny drives lmao
yea mass storage is a bit different. might even prefer some spinny bois for their longevity
These days ssds might actually have hdds beat on longevity. Still, affordable mass storage and ssds aren’t close to hdd levels yet.
Totally depends on the use case. For data hoarding on a NAS, it’s absolutely fine and the sane choice in regards to pricing.
If you’re doing mass storage, you probably want something a bit bigger then 1TiB, though.
it’s still cheaper and doesn’t really matter for like games and stuff.
like you could get a 256gb ssd + 1tb 7200rpm ssd.
extra 5 seconds waiting on the loading screen don’t really matter that much and most games are actually optimized to run decently from hdds (except recent games that came out after like 2018)
Why is everyone talking about 1TB being tiny? I have one 1TB SSD and it’s the biggest storage medium in the entire house what kinda stuff do y’all save?
Storage capacity, especially in SSDs, has been increasing really fast and decreasing in price at almost the same rate. 1TB was a lot of space in 2010 and could set you back a few hundred at least for an HDD. In 2024, you can get a 2TB SSD that’s like 10x as fast as an HDD for under $100.
My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.
I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don’t want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it’s easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)
My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.
On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.
86 TB in my NAS (mix of 20TB and 16TB disks) plus 2TB of SSD. This is a my movie/Plex server.
2TB for my OS drive on my desktop, plus around 5 more TB across three different SSDs.
32TB for porn (yeah, that’s a lot I know. idc 😺) Oh yeah and 16TB for daily OS drive backups and… Porn because I’m out of space.
1TB is bad value, and often on Amazon these days 2TB are literally the same price, even cheaper than 1TB, from the same manufacturer and same model series!
Have you perchance heard of “stash”? It’s a neat little program to sort and tag all the porn you’ve saved and access it thought a neat little webui. I’ve personally yet to actually use it, but maybe I will if I set up my own cloud
On my 14TB divided among 7 drives of varying capacity form and speed, games, music, DVD rips, BR rips, 3d models, backups of other systems in my possession. 14TB is getting too small for my needs honestly, prolly gonna slap another 4TB at the problem instead of deleting old stuff.
