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The law has the concept of consideration and there is a level of judgment used on these kinds of things. Intent is part of the law too. Which means if someone falsely puts a cheap price for a product to get you into a store (or something like that) they'll likely be on the hook for that, it's false advertising. But if someone simply made a typo and the price on offer doesn't line up to reasonable consideration, then it's not binding. There was no intent to deceive, and the price isn't reasonable consideration for the product.

So while there may be times you may be able to benefit from someone making a mistake, there will be many times you won't. That's not a bad thing since the same law protects you if you make a mistake. If someone puts into the fine print of a contact that you should give them all of your possessions, and you didn't notice it, the law would also throw that out because they didn't offer reasonable consideration for your possessions.

So you don't have recourse (nor should you) in the scenario where someone made an honest mistake like with a typo. Sucks that for a moment you thought you were getting a laptop for a ridiculously cheap price, but think about what it would mean on the other end. You'd be getting a laptop without paying a reasonable price for it, the company would have to eat the cost, and some poor bastard would probably be fired for making a typo. Is a cheap laptop really worth someone else losing their job?

That one wasn't the customer feeding it exactly what to say, though, it was the customer asking how to get a discounted price honored, what steps they would need to take, and they followed the chat bot's instruction... A customer using a company's bot in good faith to understand how a process works (one of the things it was supposedly meant for) is not the same as one blatantly abusing the bot's design to get money for nothing.

On my 14TB divided among 7 drives of varying capacity form and speed, games, music, DVD rips, BR rips, 3d models, backups of other systems in my possession. 14TB is getting too small for my needs honestly, prolly gonna slap another 4TB at the problem instead of deleting old stuff.

My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.

I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don't want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it's easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)

My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.

On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.

Well, Brazil just finished porting Spider-Man 2 to PC and the install size is 250GB.

86 TB in my NAS (mix of 20TB and 16TB disks) plus 2TB of SSD. This is a my movie/Plex server.

2TB for my OS drive on my desktop, plus around 5 more TB across three different SSDs.

32TB for porn (yeah, that's a lot I know. idc 😺) Oh yeah and 16TB for daily OS drive backups and... Porn because I'm out of space.

1TB is bad value, and often on Amazon these days 2TB are literally the same price, even cheaper than 1TB, from the same manufacturer and same model series!

I mean, a lot of games are 100 GB+ each now. And then there's mods, I've had plenty of 200+ GB Skyrim installs. MSFS2020 can easily tread beyond 300 GB with terrain packs and aircraft.

I have a 1TB ssd for windows and stuff, and a very large 6 HD NAS server just for games and backups of server images.

For a HDD? It's tiny and way over priced per GB.

For an SSD? It's great.

I store media, so my primary nas is 4x14tb disks

SATA

Shitty games that are now 200gb each

Oh gawd, maybe 6TB in SSDs and 25TB in HDDs!

I need more space.

1TB is good for an SSD. But the main reason anyone gets a HDD is to get storage sizes that they can't really afford in SSDs currently.

Storage capacity, especially in SSDs, has been increasing really fast and decreasing in price at almost the same rate. 1TB was a lot of space in 2010 and could set you back a few hundred at least for an HDD. In 2024, you can get a 2TB SSD that's like 10x as fast as an HDD for under $100.

my steam deck has 2tb in it and my computer has 2tb ssds one for linux one for windows I wouldn't say 1tb is tiny but eh 2tb isn't too expensive at this point so I wouldn't buy anything below 2tb anymore personally

Well, they suggested a relatively small capacity in a mechanical drive

My main rig has 11TB, my media server two RAID1 arrays at 16TB and 18TB

It's easy to get out of hand with media, games, lots of VMs, dedicated boot drives, etc