[ale] Cheap spinning rust was: to lvm or not lvm

[Chuck Payne]

Guys,

If you can find PC parts expensive. Get em'. The AI bubble is jacking up
everything. Corsair is leaving the consumer market. 2TB NMVe I could get
for around $100, are now between $150 to $200. I heard soon, graphic cards
will go up. Oh, did I say home power will go up.  All because of the AI
Bubble.

By the way, small board computers are already affected by Memory Prices. An
8 Gig Raspberry Pi 5 would cost this time last year, $75 dollars, now cost
$95.

The AI bubble needs to pop soon.

By the way, I refuse to call it AI, because it will fail the Turner Test,
what we really have is TI, Trained Intelligence.

Anyway, enjoy inexpensive parts while you can. 2026 gonna suck for PC
Builds and Home Labs.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 5:23 AM Ron via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Ron via Ale wrote on 2026-01-01 20:28:
>
> > Today, priced at $699.99 - holy crap!
>
> Silly me, maybe.
>
> That's the *sale* price at $250 off - regular $950!
>
> And that's at both local stores:
>
>  > https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00122322
>
>
> > https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/desktop-laptop-internal-ssds/226019/
> > wd-black-sn850x-2tb-pcie-gen4-nvme-m-2-ssd-wds200t2x0e.html
>
> So, yeah, WD is not just willing but eager to gouge their customers.
>
>
> The Seagate 530R 2TB is up from $195 to ... out of stock. Was $270 last
> I saw.
>
>
> Interestingly, the Seagate wins on every metric shown on this site
> (where it isn't a tie) except one category: number of on-board
> controllers (WD has 9, Seagate has 8), which gave WD a win as this in
> theory makes the WD faster.
>
> Yet the actual read / write speeds have Seagate winning every category,
> and twice the TBW durability specs.
>
>
> Interesting.
>
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