On 2023-01-03 22:11, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
BTW, crying over those prices sounds like 21st century first-world
problems, considering the princely ransoms we paid for wee fractions
of that much storage back in the day, or being in awe of the first
sysadmin on Usenet who was running a
On 2023-01-02 23:45, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
...
If you want a really good SSD, you want one with DRAM. Unfortunately
they seem to be quite a bit more expensive. A 500G Crucial MX500 is
$69.99 at Canada Computers (much worse on Amazon.ca). The 1TB MX500
is 101.50 at Amazon.ca.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
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> There was one infamous exception: Amazon (used to) mingle their SD
> cards with other vendors SD cards in their warehouse. So "sold by
> Amazon" SD cards could actually be supplied by a disreputable vendor.
> All hell broke
