[gruez]

I'm not sure how pricing works where you live, but to get optimal pricing I usually have to wait a few months, or maybe even a year (black Friday). Given that all time lows for hard drive prices haven't budged much in the past few years, why buy every few months rather than stocking up when prices are low?

Anyways for my data point: there was some external hard drives on sale for 5-10% higher than "optimal" prices.

>and stock disappeared for 4 TB+.

That's strange because those drives have terrible TB/$ compared to 10+TB drives.

[hdhrnnrkrkf]

Opportunity cost. By keeping my cash in bitcoin I can now buy (well, not with this shortage) 5 times more hard drives than last black Friday.

[SECProto]

> By keeping my cash in bitcoin I can now buy (well, not with this shortage) 5 times more hard drives than last black Friday.

Probably only 4 after you pay the appropriate capital gains taxes, I'd hope. :)

[Semaphor]

If they have to. Not sure how it works in Romania, but in Germany you can sell coins held for 1 year or more without having to pay taxes.