No.1962
I should, because I know there are several things that I have needed to get for a while, but I have too much other stuff to think about and I hate spending money.
No.1972
If you're going to buy hard drives, you may want to look at either
https://shucks.top or
https://diskprices.comI dunno about anything else. I'll probably check and see if stuff on my Amazon wishlists have gone down in price at all (probably not) and think about buying stuff. I'm thinking about buying a Retroid Pocket 5. If those proposed tariffs get put into place, electronics especially are going to skyrocket in price next year so it may be worth it to buy stuff now rather than waiting.
No.1973
Bought onaholes, thinking of buying a new controller since my old 360 one has a bad wire or something and disconnects if you hold it at the wrong angle. Xbox One controllers seem to have not-shit d-pads anyway so probably an upgrade.
No.1974
>>1973I wish the actual analog sticks on the Xbone and SeX controllers were more reliable, because I already had one eat shit due to stick drift.
The d-pad on both is honestly pretty nice, I played GG Strive for a while with a SeX controller.
No.1977
In my country we don't have Black Friday sales.
We have Black Friday scams. All the large companies raise their prices one month in advance and then "lower" them on black friday to the price they were before they raised the prices.
No.1978
>>1977Same thing happens here. That basically means I have to wait until December before buying anything again. Sucks if I
really need something during black friday season.
No.1979
no, I'm penniless
No.2012
I think this is the Best Buy WD deal this year:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-20tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6500985.p20TB for $250. I currently have about 4TB free across all drives and I need to start hoarding ROM sets and more anime so I may take the plunge.
No.2069
Is there a 60% keyboard anyone here can vouch for?
It can be wired or wireless don't really care.
I had to downsize and I have no desk space anymore so that extra 10 inches or so that the numpad occupies actually matters.
No.2071
>>2069I had to look up what you meant by 60%. Can't say I do. I imagine a brand that makes a good full-size keyboard would also make good thin ones, but I'm not sure. I use a full size Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT with blue switches and it's alright, but I hate the software. So bloated with completely unnecessary RAM usage, but if I close it I lose my macros.
No.2072
>>2069Are you looking for a complete keyboard or do you want build something custom? Assuming the former, Keychron makes solid keyboards across a wide price range depending on material. They generally use hotswappable PCBs as well so you can change switches out later if you want/need.
No.2073
No I'm broke
No.2075
>>2074>setup I can buySomething like that doesn't really exist. Some manual configuration will be necessary. 48TB of usable capacity with RAID means you need to decide whether you're okay sacrificing redundancy for capacity.
>I do want to start backing up my collectionBut from what you say here, you would ideally want
more disks so you have less risk of data loss.
If you really want to buy something, I would recommend something like a QNAP TS-664/TS-464. Upgrade the RAM to 64GB. If you don't like the built-in OS, buy a flash drive and boot either TrueNAS or unRAID.
If you care about data resiliency:
Go with the TS-664 and buy 6x 12TB drives and create a single RAIDz2 pool. That will give you 48TB of usable capacity and you can lose two disks with no data loss. If you lose a third disk all your data is gone.
QNAP TS-664: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPNCJHNZ
64GB DDR4 2x 32GB: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZLCVKPV
USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB flash drive: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLJ148PQ
Right-angle USB 3 Adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMPZDSXB
WD 1TB M.2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QV692XY
M.2 Heatsinks: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR69GG3W
Seagate IronWolf Pro 12TB HDD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B94KSFTH
Total (pre-tax): ~$2350 USD
The cost difference between 12TB and 16TB disks right now is only $20, so if you go with those instead, you can get 64TB usable capacity, but the price increases to ~$2500 USD.If you care about cost more, and care less about data resiliency:
Go with the TS-464 and buy 4x 16TB drives and create a single RAIDz1 pool. That will also give you 48TB of usable capacity but you can only lose a single disk with no data loss. If you lose a second disk all your data is gone.
Buy list:
QNAP TS-464: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ5TWCL8
64GB DDR4 2x 32GB: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZLCVKPV
USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB flash drive: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLJ148PQ
Right-angle USB 3 Adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMPZDSXB
WD 1TB M.2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QV692XY
M.2 Heatsinks: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR69GG3W
Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB HDD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B94KSFTH
Total (pre-tax): ~$1700 USDOf course, if you have a PC laying around already, you can just buy the disks themselves and use either TrueNAS or unRAID as mentioned, which will be a much lower cost.
You can move around a bit on specs. Both of those QNAP NASes have a half-height x8 PCIe slot (x4 electrical) if you want to put in something like a 10GbE card, but they come standard with dual 2.5GbE.
If you're not going to move around a ton of data and won't be transferring more than ~50GB at a time, and only have 1GbE throughout your house, you can get rid of the SSDs with minimal change to transfer speeds. Both 4x or 6x 7200RPM drives should max out 1GbE on reads, and you should be using RAM caching on writes. 2.5GbE or 10GbE will be closer to using the drives as if they were actually connected to your PC (Assuming your PC also has either 2.5GbE or 10GbE).
For reference, 1GbE is ~120MB/s (as fast as a mediocre HDD), 2.5GbE is ~240MB/s (as fast as a good HDD), and 10GbE is ~1GB/s (as fast as a "slow" M.2 SSD)
No.2076
>>2075It hurts me to spend that much, but thinking about it, I'd probably value my data at way more than 2.5k so it is what it is.
Also was thinking of seeing if there's any good CRTs or alternatives, but it doesn't seem like there's anything nice in terms of Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals for those.
No.2077
Just bought a 9800X3D for U$669
I think I did pretty well, considering that I'm Brazilian, the dollar is at an all-time high here, and import tax laws would make the cost of importing it be:
Product Price: $479
Shipping: $60
Customs Value: $539
Import Tax: $323.40
More taxes: $129.36
Even more taxes: $221.62
Grand Total: $1213.38
Brazil is stupid
Prices here are stupid
Next year I'll probably travel to Miami to pickup a 5080 to avoid the hassle of paying so many taxes
No.2083
oh huh... a 50$ discount on the amp if I sign up for prime... well I'm not going to buy it a third time so I'll have to pass on even considering that
No.2084
>>2079That sounds like an amazing find. I hope you can tell us how much you like it once it's all configured and test driven.
No.2101
>>2079>on linux everything works out of boxDisgusting. That goes against everything Linux stands for.
No.2102
lmao, fedex delivered to the completely wrong location because of bestbuy
No.2103
>>2100Giant... Expensive... Curved...
No.2104
>>2103Ended up getting a flat screen OLED tv instead because I don't think I like wide too much and not sure how well the curve would work in my current setup.
Is curved even that good anyways? Pondering about the next setup I build if I want it for my gaming PC or not.
No.2105
>>2104I think the consensus is that curved is okay, maybe even good for stuff like FPSs and movies, but they're not great for stuff like productivity and photo editing because they make straight lines look curved
No.2106
>>2084not really, the pen pressure does work and it's usable for drawing, and it feels nice because the screen is laminated, but that's about it
the buttons on the pen do nothing and the pen shows up as an eraser in drawing programs so i have to work around it by remapping the eraser to pen
there are definitely some problems with the monitor firmware and the pen, it pretends to be a wacom tablet just enough so the pc can recognize it, but it uses an active pen so it definitely has nothing to do with it
there are no official drivers, opentabletdriver also doesn't recognize the device. the only thing i can do is to try to add device support for it
at least i can change the monitor mapping on windows by using "tablet pc settings" but nothing else can be changed right now
No.2108
Company that screwed up the delivery now shipping one from china. Might be a refurb...
No.2117
Quite literally everything I looked at buying showed on camelcamelcamel that its price had been jacked up before black friday, so the "sale" was a return to the old price.
So I didn't buy a thing.
No.2138
>70%
err, should be 75%
No.2139
>>2137Cool. What's the benefit of something like this, or is it mostly size?
No.2140
>>2139Entirely so, plus it's USB C and my old Corsair board was dual USB so it frees up a much needed slot too.
I don't work from home or game really so it's not like I would appreciate a numpad now anyways.
Should I ever need a fullsize I still have the old one which works just fine, despite being at least 10 years old soon.
No.2143
got some clicky switches to replace some cheap switches which don't grip the keycaps strong enough
>>2139it's small enough that i can move around in my backpack
>>2140you can just make the numpad available from the fn layer, works very well for my ortholinear keyboard
No.2152
>>2151I could go for some shoes. Is it physical stores only? I guess it would be or they'd all be out of stock by now.
No.2153
>>2152Yeah, it wouldn't make sense for it to be online.
No.2154
>>2151Most important thing I ever learned from old men; "Never cheap out on anything that's between you and the ground".
So you spend good money on; Bed, Shoes, Boots, Tires, Tent, Sleeping bag etc etc.
No.2157
>>2154I let my dad trick me into getting some $100 dollar "running shoes" because he believed they'd be better for my feet and they fell apart within a year or two, so I'm hesitant to spend anything beyond the bare minimum on shoes now.
No.2158
>>2157well this advice obviously applies to things that aren't manufactured as "made in <your country>" when really they're cardboard crap assembled in China then sent over to be boxed up by locals before being put on the market to trick unsuspecting customers.
I recently had to stop buying boots from a company I've bought from for years because they're now selling $50 quality boots at $300+ coasting by on a reputation the company had built up for over 100 years before being bought out by a new parent company a few years ago.