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And everythings coming with wiped SMART now. you can recover the POH on SATA's, but its still bullshit.
Francisco
I’ve actually found the games/scams got significantly worse with the price hikes. Shocking. This is a perfect example of that, pushed me right into arms of Big Data. If I’m paying $16/TB but have to have a ~30-50% risk of wiped SMART or packed like a brainlet might as well pay $19 and go direct.
It’s okay, the little list of which “vendors” behaves/acts professional and which didn’t is already paying off.
Yeah that's the sad part for us. We had some vendors that sold us good good drives. not a single failure, smart was fair.
Last batch we bought came with '5 year warranty, 0 hours, guaranteed', etc. Told us it was 'new, old stock'. Pop the drives in, a short SMART check later and... 33,000+ hours each.
1/4 of them have already failed/failing.
Francisco
Being lied to about SMART data or path diversity sucks. It's the same problem — you only find out after you've committed. The list you keep is exactly what this forum useful for— bad vendors and datacenters should be avoided just like customer avoiding bad hosts which oversell resources.
On the hardware pricing, trendforce says buyers simply have no appetite. Manufacturers are trying to hold the price high by requiring multi-year contract with flooring and ceiling, which otherwise will decline as hyperscalers curtails capacity expansion.
Its funny. Big integrators are basically giving the rest of a computer free, just to get sales done. You can buy a gaming rig off hp.com that has a 5090 in it, and it costs the ~same as a standalone 5090 off newegg/amazon/etc.
They're near literally giving a free computer with every GPU.
Francisco
Yeah, I have also seen free CPU+casing+peripheral with purchases of RAM and NVME. I wonder why they did that. It's as if they got giant stash of pre-surge price inventory that must be sold
They have large contracts with suppliers over many years. They don’t pay retail obviously but still need to move volume.
everything on the back of the client, sadly its happening everywhere, food instustry also, so we have to reduce the costs and consume less, but sadly that way SOME will be forced to close the doors of their business
RAM DDR5 REG 16GB/PC5600/ECC/Samsung (1Rx8) - 954 Euro + Shipping and VAT.
While reading the Offer I was like.....
Meanwhile my brain was like.....
@host_c Aaaannnnsssswwwweeeerrrr Meeeeeee
Who the hell pays $30 for two pathetic cores? You can get two full dedicated servers from OVH for that kind of money, and they'll probably throw in a car wash coupon
Overrated trash.
BuyVM refugee deals when?