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Is it me, or does it not seem like there are many decent black Friday deals on any kind of internal storage whether it be a spinning hard drive or a solid-state device? My last drive purchase was a 16 TB Toshiba enterprise and they paid $225. Black Friday deals. Don’t even come close to this. Except, perhaps, if people are willing to shuck.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Black friday in general is pretty lackluster lately, but keep in mind that you're looking for deals on items that don't really experience the seasonal variability that other consumer products do. People (generally, this sub aside lol) aren't putting HDDs under the christmas tree.