• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yes, probably should have seen that coming to be fair. Especially since the A1297s are so prone to failure.

    It’s just that confirmed working ones are still so goddamn expensive and I kinda wanted to have one but not enough to drop 200€ on it

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      1 month ago

      Rule of thumb when buying electronics (or anything for that matter) is buy it cheap, buy it twice.

      Nervously looks at the 10€/TB refurbished drives that just arrived

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        1 month ago

        70€ isn’t cheap for a laptop from 2011, to me at least…

        But I get what you mean, 10€ per TB sounds too good to be true :D