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    Western Digital SN850X 2TB & SN850X 4TB -- high end NVMe, lowest prices I've seen on these!

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    B&H has always been a good place to buy from for me. I bought the 2tb sn850x from them for $112.99 during this sale, and later that morning I noticed they dropped their price on that to $99 after I already paid. So I emailed them asking if they could do a price adjustment/refund down to $99 post sale, but the B&H guy said he could do one better and adjusted my price down to $89, because I hadn't seen it but while I was emailing him they had lowered their price even further from $99 to $89. Maybe other stores do that too but it was done real easily through B&H who gave an even better deal than I asked for. Also scored two 4tb sn850x from Best Buy @ $229/ea. If anyone ever does a better price on that 4tb drive, good on whoever gets *that* deal. 

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    Ben Osterhouse Pathfinder Violin

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    7 hours ago, jngnz said:

    There will never be a "last purchase" of any type of thing while I frequent this horrible place, will there? I need to get the Pathfinder libraries at least now. 😭

    Now's not the time to buy. Like, I keep getting an email alert that Sospiro Strings is on sale for ~$36, but I know it's sold for ~$15 before

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    Western Digital SN850X 2TB & SN850X 4TB -- high end NVMe, lowest prices I've seen on these!

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    Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560 MB/s - CT2000MX500SSD1

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    On 6/10/2023 at 1:50 PM, User 905133 said:

    Two months ago I picked up a 2 TB crucial external SSD at a local store for $10 more than it is at NewEgg today ($100).  I have just started to use it and have no feel for how good/reliable it is over the long haul.  Any impressions / experiences with their external SSDs?  Thanks.

    Are you using it as a daily driver or for bulk/backup storage in an external enclosure? You can take the warranty that Crucial gives it (5 yrs) and measure that against what the CrystalDiskInfo utility tells you about the drive, and in that way you can essentially see where you are at any given time in the hard drive's 'guaranteed' lifespan. With ssds the jury's still out on whether or not they're good for bulk storage where the hd doesn't get powered on often. You can read about it but essentially ssds will start to deteriorate just by virtue of existing especially if they're sitting on a shelf with data on them and not getting powered on often. As they deteriorate the data on them could get lost/corrupted. If the drive is inside your PC that gets powered on frequently I would just check CrystalDiskInfo now and then to see where you are within the projected lifespan that Crucial gives it anyway, and be backing up your system regularly which is good practice anyway. I personally don't have the same confidence in the longevity of ssds that I do for spin drives, though I don't use spin drives at all anymore.

    https://youtu.be/HBcJD9rUNRo

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    BandLab Technologies reveals new brand vision for Cakewalk

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    1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

    I wouldn't consider my publicly sharing my experience of having no customer support from Fluffy Audio resulting in the owner lashing out at me in social media and calling me defamatory names comparable to be people complaining that the life time deal made by a defunct company should be honored by the company that purchased that defunct company's intellectual capital. 

    Bandlab didn't not provide support or lash out at customers who shared a bad experience and called them names. I get that you're saying that I have very negative feelings towards Fluffy Audio, but that's actually based on specific actions by Fluffy Audio, not blaming a company for something that happened with another company that they purchased assets from after it was dissolved.

    Point is brother you brought the Fluffy Audio guy out to have a public showdown w/ you on two separate forums over something trivial in the grand scheme, but you drew it out far beyond the scope of ridiculousness, posting "interminable screeds" (as one put it) of having been so wronged, to the point where if a reader didn't know any better they'd think your house burned down, and virtually everyone who commented on that thread told you as much. I'm saying that you commenting now re Bandlab on how people are 'ranting' and should 'move on' comes off as rich, if not hypocritical, condescending and just generally lacking humility. Thanks for editing down this post of yours I'm responding to, as it was initially needlessly long and rehashy. 

    Lol aight, I'll agree to move on from this though and won't comment further on what I wrote beyond this post. That high horse deal of yours just gets old is all brother. I mean that respectfully too, not attacking you. 

     

    I'll buy the new Cakewalk as it's the only daw I really care about. Just do us a solid BandLab and don't charge half a grand. 

    BandLab Technologies reveals new brand vision for Cakewalk

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    25 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

    But if folks are going to rant about perceived injustices when it's obvious that they weren't wronged by Bandlab, my sense of fairness/ethics does compel me to respond. That's all. I wish you and everyone else nothing but happiness, no ill will. And I hope that you will consider what me and others have written and be able to move on. 

    Lol, not for nothing but in all fairness brother it's kind of funny to see you out here talking about 'perceived injustices' and whether or not someone was wronged and telling people to "move on" after that whole drawn out public showdown between you and the Fluffy Audio guy on VI Control as well as here, over what most felt was nothing.. Lol I'm just busting your b@11s but you gotta see the irony, or whatever it is, there lol

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    BandLab Technologies reveals new brand vision for Cakewalk

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    58 minutes ago, dubdisciple said:

    If I'm not mistaken, they acquired cakewalk after it had folded, rather than while it was active. It was dead and bandlab revived rather than took it over. I think that is a huge difference in expectations for honoring previous agreements

    That'd be the legal side of it. But one could argue that there was still a moral obligation there when Meng slammed that home when he himself said:

    "Our steadfast goal is that former SONAR owners (of all versions) will not need to spend any money to cross-over/cross-grade to the future flagship product"

    He was obviously overly optimistic there, and of course no expressed promise was made there, but he said what he said and one could argue that BandLab, in soon charging for their future flagship, is now not standing by their word, or at least the "steadfast goal" they set for themselves and us. 

    I don't feel like BandLab owes me for the Lifetime Updates I bought. For the rec I'm not so much pissed at the lost money as I am at being taken by Gibson's final Cakewalk grift - something Gibson pulled knowing that ultimately they wouldn't be honoring it for long. 

    And with Meng coming in and applying sav to that burn w/ that "steadfast goal".. we can understand how one could be pissed at BandLab right now. I'm not. I got way worse s#!t going down in my life to care. 

    But probably no one should buy (into) anymore 'Lifetime' or 'Steadfast Goal' bs, and that is what that is. 

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    BandLab Technologies reveals new brand vision for Cakewalk

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    I paid for Lifetime Updates. I don't feel like BandLab owes me on that, but they did make the Software (and updates) free for 5 some odd years. You could say they made good on Gibson's final Cakewalk grift for 5 years anyway when they didn't have to. I never got what I paid for from Gibson, but got it free from BandLab for 5 years. Maybe it evens out. No I don't think so. I'm still mad - for Gibson doing me like this and for this new shade of orange.  But Cakewalk has always been my only daw since Pro Audio 8. I'll maybe pay for it if they don't change it up into a whole new daw,  but I'm gonna be real mad if it's like $400-500

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    BandLab Technologies reveals new brand vision for Cakewalk

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    3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    Quote from Meng from 5 years ago:

    "our steadfast goal is that former SONAR owners (of all versions) will not need to spend any money to cross-over/cross-grade to the future flagship product"

     

    3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    ... for anyone concerned about having to pay for Cakewalk Sonar, you might cite this if BandLab decide to charge you for the upgrade.

    It'd just be a goal they failed to reach, not a promise they made and failed keep. They wouldn't word it that way, but. 

    But I don't care about nunna that.. this new orange shade is bu11$#!t

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