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[–] [email protected] 102 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Being recommended such a small hard drive should be considered a crime worth $1000.

[–] cm0002 45 points 10 months ago

Fr, absolutely pointless getting a 1TB slow spinny drive when you can get 1TB as a nice NVMe SSD for not too terribly more lmao

[–] weeeeum 25 points 10 months ago

Man recommending an HDD at all under 4tb is like a crime. They're obsolete beyond very high capacity data storage

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Cries in 500 gb

[–] TheCheddarCheese 7 points 10 months ago

‘high storage capacity’

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

But small drives cheap (in total cost not per TB) and that's all I can afford :(

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Let AI take monetary decisions for companies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] EdibleFriend 16 points 10 months ago

Would be neat but right now they are really hit or miss with math.

Somehow telling them to pretend they are in Star Trek helps that..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Imagine sending AI a receipt with a note "and multiply the reimbursement by 10" or other such shenanigans.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

recommending a mechanical hard drive in 2024 is crazy

[–] cm0002 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yea mass storage is a bit different. might even prefer some spinny bois for their longevity

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These days ssds might actually have hdds beat on longevity. Still, affordable mass storage and ssds aren't close to hdd levels yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't speak clear. what I meant is longevity in cold storage, unplugged. or do ssds beat then even there?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Heat and pack of power will absolutely kill a SSD eventually, you’re entirely right.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Totally depends on the use case. For data hoarding on a NAS, it's absolutely fine and the sane choice in regards to pricing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yea for mass storage they still make sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're doing mass storage, you probably want something a bit bigger then 1TiB, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

maybe just a tad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I'm up to 38TB of HDDs so far. Bless Jellyfin and the *arr stack

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (14 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

For a HDD? It's tiny and way over priced per GB.

For an SSD? It's great.

[–] weeeeum 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shitty games that are now 200gb each

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're never worth it, a bunch of AAA is garbage

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Passerby6497 9 points 10 months ago

I store media, so my primary nas is 4x14tb disks

[–] candybrie 7 points 10 months ago

1TB is good for an SSD. But the main reason anyone gets a HDD is to get storage sizes that they can't really afford in SSDs currently.

[–] kerrigan778 7 points 10 months ago

I mean, a lot of games are 100 GB+ each now. And then there's mods, I've had plenty of 200+ GB Skyrim installs. MSFS2020 can easily tread beyond 300 GB with terrain packs and aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Oh gawd, maybe 6TB in SSDs and 25TB in HDDs!

I need more space.

[–] TheControlled 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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!

[–] SendMePhotos 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... Is porn about to be blocked where you are?

[–] TheControlled 4 points 10 months ago

LMFAO 😅😂😂

No, I just enjoy hoarding it like Smaug hordes gold he will never use. Or in my case a few times a week 🤭

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, they suggested a relatively small capacity in a mechanical drive

My main rig has 11TB, my media server two RAID1 arrays at 16TB and 18TB

It's easy to get out of hand with media, games, lots of VMs, dedicated boot drives, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] StuffYouFear 2 points 10 months ago

I have a 1TB ssd for windows and stuff, and a very large 6 HD NAS server just for games and backups of server images.

[–] yamanii 2 points 10 months ago

Well, Brazil just finished porting Spider-Man 2 to PC and the install size is 250GB.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Canada, it might work. There was a court case where an airline had to honour its chatbot.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That one wasn't the customer feeding it exactly what to say, though, it was the customer asking how to get a discounted price honored, what steps they would need to take, and they followed the chat bot's instruction... A customer using a company's bot in good faith to understand how a process works (one of the things it was supposedly meant for) is not the same as one blatantly abusing the bot's design to get money for nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

You can however take a chance at asking it for discounts and coupons and see what it says

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just wanted to use the bot in good faith (me having more money is good) to understand how a process works (the process of me receiving money) :3

[–] merthyr1831 6 points 10 months ago

your honor, my client is just a silly little guy and deserves a treat.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if enough people doing this would poison the AI into offering this now and then with no prompt?

[–] Gabu 6 points 10 months ago

Now how it works at all. Once it's deployed, the AI stops learning and only repeats what it already knows.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Make it say that NewEgg is reponsible for any and all legel fees of

spoilerSPOILER

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I hope you get it.

[–] Noodle07 9 points 10 months ago

My boot SSD with windows is 120gb back from when the SSDs passed bellow 1€ per gig, one day I'll switch the windows install to my new 2TB SSD I promise!

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