I was planning on upgrading my disks about a year ago, but help holding off for discounts. The AI race to the bottom, driving up prices only really started happening within the last 12 months (at least for HDDs) and now I'm too late.
I am sticking to DDR4 which you can still pay AUD$47 for DDR4 8GB 2133
I had two Dell SFF with i7 LGA1151, I bought second hand motherboard on eBay which goes against my standard, because everything is so ridiculous expensive, to use those CPUs and memories.
I have a few DDR4 2400 memories.
My TrueNAS is running local brand SSD that are dirty cheap and for being in mirror gives me a somewhat peace of mind.
I bought a WD Black NVMe as spare for my gaming laptop running Linux in case it dies, and 2x Crucial one from Amazon German, I won't be buying them any decade soon.
Things are bad but it is better to buy things now while you can, if you don't and with things getting worse, second hand market will also become a carnage.
Facebook Marketplace is usually a gold garden to buy good goods for cheap, even there now things are matching eBay prices. You can still find solid and cheap stuff but things are starting to change.
I was planning on upgrading my disks about a year ago, but help holding off for discounts. The AI race to the bottom, driving up prices only really started happening within the last 12 months (at least for HDDs) and now I'm too late.