Something tells me this ain't legit

[George K]

SSD Storage

8TB for $70?

[LuFins Dad]

Yeah, no.

Bought Lucas a 1 TB upgrade for his PC 2 years ago. $120. While we were in line he was complaining about how expensive it was. I laughed and told him 32 MEGS(!) cost $400 in 1992…

[Mik]

When I was in school 10mb hard drives were $10K.

[George K]

@mik said in Something tells me this ain't legit:

When I was in school 10mb hard drives were $10K.

OK, well, if you want to go there...

My 32K (yes, kilobyte) upgrade for my first computer was $450.

No doubt SSDs have gotten cheaper over the years, but this is just ridiculous.

I've been on a mailing list for Mac users since the mid 1990s. The consensus for reliability is still a spinning platter hard drive - if, and only if, you're willing to spend the $$ for a high quality device (not bus-powered, good heat dissipation, etc).

[Mik]

There are a lot of Chinese companies now offering too good to be true deals. They either take the money and deliver nothing or send something vastly substandard to what you ordered.

[Doctor Phibes]

My new PC has a 1TB NVME M.2 internal drive. The load speeds are ridiculous. Except of course after about 5 minutes you don't notice them. Until you go back to using an old computer - then you really notice them.

[89th]

@doctor-phibes yup, same here

And yea @George-K maybe in 5 years that’ll be the price point for 8TB but not now.

[Copper]

@george-k said in Something tells me this ain't legit:

8TB for $70?

The taliban are pulling those out of US Air Force airplanes so they have low overhead.