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And now SSD and hard drive prices. Keep your tech going, it's going to be a long few years, if ever, before affordability returns. They (cloud and AI tech-holes) want local compute and storage to be unaffordable so we use their crap. F-ck that, I'm gonna scavenge whatever I can to keep self-hosting to the bitter end.
i've salvaged enough older ddr3/ddr4 stuff and sata ssd to hopefully last until i see some newer stuff go through here destined for the recycle heap. but what i am short on is spinny hdd for more ''archive'' storage, i'm down to my last couple smaller hdd