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

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

Cries in 500 gb

‘high storage capacity’

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

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?

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

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

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

For an SSD? It's great.

Shitty games that are now 200gb each

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I need more space.

My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.

I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don't want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it's easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)

My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.

On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.

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!

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.

Not unless they were training the language models on customer interactions. I could see them doing this, but I would also expect the dataset to be curated.

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