Forum for posting deals you find on hardware?

[JoshDW19]

Is this something that would be interesting to some of you? Sharing good deals on hard drives, motherboards, memory, etc when we find them with the rest of the community? Let us know what you think.

 

[Spearfoot]

Is this something that would be interesting to some of you? Sharing good deals on hard drives, motherboards, memory, etc when we find them with the rest of the community? Let us know what you think.

I like the idea.

 

[Bisquit]

Great idea, I always check the Pricewatch at Tweakers.net, not sure if it's any help outside The Netherlands.

 

[m0nkey_]

Is this something that would be interesting to some of you? Sharing good deals on hard drives, motherboards, memory, etc when we find them with the rest of the community? Let us know what you think.

The problem with this is that most deals are country specific. Somebody might find a great deal on WD RED drives, but the deal happens to be in Australia and whoever wants to buy is in America. Would need a way to identify which country the deal is applicable to and a way to filter them to specific countries.

 

[Spearfoot]

Geography is a stumbling blocks that occurs to me... People in Europe won't get much benefit from deals on eBay or Amazon that are only available in the USA, and vice versa. Perhaps we could have subforums for North America, Europe, the Far East, etc.?

EDIT: Ah, I see @m0nkey_ already posted about this while I was typing!

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

For new hardware or fleeting eBay listings, I don't see much value especially when the international audience is considered. Prices change so quickly yet threads stick around forever. It could just lead to clutter and broken links.

There are times when I do think pointing out a value is a great help and that's pre-built or known-good configurations that are readily available. The Dell C2100 Ode is a great example. If there were other commonly available systems known to work really well with FreeNAS, I'd call them out, too.

The hardware guide would be a great place to hotlink items for easily ordering. In the same way it's really easy to point to the C2100 and say 'just buy this', it would be nice to say 'basic quiet home system with up to six drives for Plex, just by this' or 'basic office file server with room for 12 drives, get this'.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Ericloewe]

The hardware guide would be a great place to hotlink items for easily ordering. In the same way it's really easy to point to the C2100 and say 'just buy this', it would be nice to say 'basic quiet home system with up to six drives for Plex, just by this' or 'basic office file server with room for 12 drives, get this'.

I'd be happy to curate such a list (not at the moment, but starting mid-february), but I'd need a couple of volunteers to handle at least the pre-built stuff, which I am not at all familiar with. In fact, we have something similar already, though it is somewhat underdeveloped.

Any volunteers, just PM me to coordinate work.