Not by the outlook at how cheap a 2tb drive would have cost by now if AI data centers didn’t fuck it up. A 2TB nvme drive 3 years ago was ander $110.
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI think $800 for 2 TB was still a bit overoptimistic, but I suppose we’ll never really know.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Versus around $300 now, so that would theoretically only represent a $200 price difference.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
We’re getting down to a workable $800 pricepoint. You forgot to deduct the ram and other components that have also been vastly inflated, or taken into account that by all typical logic before the ai shit storm was that if a 2tb drive was $120 three years ago, by now it should have been about $75. Same for the ram having a price decline.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not really, since the starting point for the 2 TB model is $1,349.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You could probably build a comparable machine for $800 or so today, but from that perspective you are paying a couple hundred bucks for the form factor and the convenience of not having to source all the parts.
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, before the AI bullshit picked up, I managed to get a couple of used Samsung 4tb 970 ssds for $250 a piece. $800 for a nice console/PC with that much storage wasn’t much of a reach then, given consoles usually are sold at cost to get you invested in the ecosystem.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not a fair comparison. You found a very special deal for those drives which were half the price of a decently performant one at half the capacity at normal sale prices.
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But what I am implying is that if AI hadn’t jumped prices soo much, they probably could have gotten last gen 2tb drives for much less than $200, which would make them pretty price competitive. I got mine as the next Samsung pro line was launching (I believe I saw a few new ones for $300 at the time), and while they were a good deal at the time, they were not a unicorn. And given I’m pretty sure the steam machine only supports pcie4 drives, though I might be wrong about that (besides, almost no one needs pcie5 drives outside of very specific use cases), so again, if the AI madness hadn’t occurred, a $800 steam machine with 2tb of storage would have been a possibility. Which is yet another reason to say fuck AI.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A $600 difference seems way too steep - I still think $1k @ 2 TB would have been the best possibility if not for everything getting fucked by the slop machines.