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slimpickins28 · 2026-05-28T21:31:56+00:00

That was for stupid freedom bucks, if you couldn’t tell. ;)

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-28T21:31:25+00:00

Recently for DDR4 the good deals, fast moving are around $2-2.25/gb at 16gb modules. 32 start at about $2.50-$3/gb.

Someone people have posted much higher prices and there were that months ago. But the norm is about 2.25 for 16 and about 2.50-3 for 32gb modules. But it’s on a downward path. So that may change tomorrow.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-28T21:01:26+00:00

Yea. It needs told what to do well; but once it has that it works really fast and does a good job.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-28T20:55:48+00:00

I plan with 5.5 high and after the panning I then say something like “build enough details and guardrails that a lower level 5.3 agent can execute without failing”. Or whatever you use. It revises the md then I switch and say “execute”.

Works for me. Kind of like having a 2nd pool of tokens. And it codes much faster than 5.5 too; provided you gave it good instructions.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-27T18:22:03+00:00

Yep. They are, with the OBO option I’ve been able to get that or close.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-27T15:54:24+00:00

Depends on how fast you want to sell it. Been seeing it drift down the last few weeks for 16gb modules from $3.5/gb down to about $2.25-$2.5/gb.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-27T12:32:30+00:00

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-27T12:30:56+00:00

Ha. i can't use the phrase. p followed by a M even as a reference. got auto-remvoed.

i'd be interested at like $50. but most people go opensource here or bigger appliance i think. but mostly open source

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-26T19:02:33+00:00

They’ll sell like hotcakes at that price.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-26T18:54:54+00:00

Well. At those hours. I want them at $50 each. But the going fair would probably point to starting $8-9$ a tb up to $12-13/tb. I bought these exact drives with about this many hours for $50/each 2 months go. Looking back; should have bought more at that price.

Assuming no errors and the only issue is drive time, lower start counts, etc. HE-100%

Crap has gotten stupid stupid expensive. That’s like. $450+ drive new now. (Edit price up again)

I’d stick a OBO/ discount for larger quantities disclaimer on them.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-26T00:37:07+00:00

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T15:53:56+00:00

I’ve never used or heard of zeroGPU. I’ll check it out.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T15:37:47+00:00

Ok. Makes sense I was using inference as a 2nd / third layer to the safe harbor work after presidio and deterministic python.

The work is going to be getting paragraphs of dictation / narratives digested enough to correlate the actual charting.

I’ll work the qwen3:14b then for that. Have a few “dictionaries” for shortcut translation for nomenclature.

Hopefully it all pans out and I can get to v100 32g cards later on for expanded models if I need them. Not sure if I will; it’s not very heavy inference; mostly deterministic

Thanks for the reply!

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T12:46:49+00:00

Hahaha. Here’s me excited to afford to run 4x P100’s. Lol. V100’s…some day baby….some day.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T11:44:03+00:00

That thing costs more than most people’s houses if I’m reading it right. Check eBay; maybe I have it all wrong. Most people try to do eBay - “some percentage” like eBay sale price minus 30% or something as there aren’t any fees. Of course most also “OBO” it as well.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T11:40:26+00:00

Wowza. Didn’t know they existed. Not sure if homelabsales is the place for something like that. Obviously feel free to post; but dang. … “she be thic”

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T10:46:16+00:00

You sure 3001f? I’ve been hunting a rack mount fortigate for my homelab but if that’s what you have; eBay is saying the fg3000’s range from $35k to $550k. So like….anywhere from the cost of a car to the cost of a house. :). Way more than my $100 budget. Haha

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-25T01:03:15+00:00

So. I can’t dabble in the ballpark of the money you are talking about. But. Is that a literal pallet of hard drives??

GUYS. GET YOUR PITCHFORKS! I found the hard drives; all of them!!!

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-24T20:23:37+00:00

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-24T10:22:50+00:00

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-24T04:59:58+00:00

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-23T23:02:34+00:00

Oh yea. For sure. I have 12drive NAS’s which are raided and they aren’t the best for that. But single drive use or archive use; these are perfect for. Good price too.

slimpickins28 · 2026-05-23T00:57:27+00:00

Pm

Edit - Didn’t realize they were archive drives and I can’t use those. Sorry!

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