it's all gone crazy
I always remember when starting out in digital photography being told "storage is cheap". Meaning of course that shooting images digitally versus film was much more financially viable, and that therefore you could just shoot as many images as you wanted. And then the next stage of storage - a hard drive or the like to keep all your digital files - was always really very inexpensive. So many photographers (myself included) built up a collection of hard drives holding raw image files, video, audio and completed projects. I've now got around a dozen or so archive drives and four solid state drives holding all my current media. I wonder how much this lot is worth! Anyway, the other day I had to get another hard drive as my latest archive disc was filling up quickly and... well the prices are just ridiculous. It's all down to the increase in demand for AI services apparently, meaning more data centres cropping up and the demand per things like hard drives, solid state...
