So I have had my Dell 5540 Precision for years… it stopped charging the other day and I traced the power back to the mother board and figured its been a long time so its time for another, while I had it out I pulled the SSD and thought how can I get the data out so I can move it to another, so I bought below from Amazon and I know I am probably behind in the times but its very cool little device (cheap) and now I have a gig external drive and has my data on it 
Yeah I have a couple of those. We requested larger disk drives for a few computers in our department. IT was taking weeks to get around to it so I bought 2 of those and a couple of SSD’s. Took everyone’s disks home and cloned them to the new disks. One day turn around.
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I’ve got a $9 one of those on my Amazon list, along with a 2TB SSD I need to upgrade in my main PC, except the SSD and RAM prices keep rising every news article that gets published about a new data center planned.
Is this forum server based in Canada? for the price it’s showing me CAD$13.67 instead of the $9.39 my list shows. I’m not connected to a Canadian VPN either.
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Dont know… maybe they know your close to the border 
Yes I am pulling the ram out also, they wanted 600 bucks to up my ram on the new laptop to 64
I was planning a 32G to 64G RAM upgrade too, but those prices lately are impossible.
Hopefully when they figure out all the planned data centers [that are reserving all the chips and driving up the prices] are not going to be built the prices will drop back to normal.
I would like to upgrade the second graphics card on that one too as soon as GPU prices go back to affordable
Yeah RAM is out of control right now. I wanted to buy a Laptop so I can continue to do my job efficiently but RAM and NVMe’s are too expensive.
Prices all around are insane. We got a quote for a new Dell server for a customer back in October, $35,000 NZD, quote good for 90 days. For various reasons it wasn’t purchased. Customer asked me for a refreshed quote about a couple weeks ago. Exact same hardware, $75,000 NZD and the quote was only good for 10 days. More than double the price in roughly 6 months, and the validity was so short the customer couldn’t even get approval to purchase it in that 10 days…I kind of wonder what the price will be next time they ask me to refresh the quote.
Everything is out of control… two years ago I bought some solder, it took us a while to find a solder that would work for us, its a combination of flux, tin, lead, melting point and diameter… also brand, some brands are just better than others, about the past 8 years we have been using brand XYZ… but anyway I know its been two years but the price was 40ish dollars for a 1lb roll and now its $145.00, so now my cheap ass is on the hunt again, I just cant see paying 145 dollars a pound
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After IT woes at work, I was going to buy myself a Framework laptop. I can’t justify spending double the base price to get RAM and an SSD included. If prices were normal, it would be a done deal.
Yeah the price for the FW 13 Pro I ordered certainly wasn’t cheap, but since my main laptop is 10 years old, and I was due for an upgrade. Prices all around are going to be insane, and hopefully I can make the 13 Pro last a decade as well…since it can be upgraded I might be able to get it to last longer, if I treat it well.
Mine was I think around 8 years old and I just got my new one, I thought I would of been more impressed… I thought I was going to say how could I lived without it, but no, I like it but for the money I was just expecting more
Dell Pro Max 16 Plus MB16250 16" Ultra 7 265HX 64gb DDR5 RTX PRO 1000 1tb SSD W11 pro
Dang, Dell crammed “Pro”, “Max” and “Plus” all in one model name.
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All they needed was…
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My main laptop is a Toshiba Satellite I got in 2015 that is still my favorite. That laptop has been to Hong Kong, China, Turkey and Ukraine, plus Canada & quite a few states here. Had to replace the HDD once - put in a bigger SSD.
The only thing I didn’t like was it came with Windoze 8 and I kept checking every morning for Win10 to be available. Plus it doesn’t have Bluetooth, so I have to carry around a USB adapter.
When I replaced the drive and reinstalled Win10 it wouldn’t activate, Microslop tech support said my license was an upgrade of 8 so I had to install 8 on the new drive, reactivate it, install 10 and then reactivate that.
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