BAPC Sales Canada

Pros:

• $369.99 CAD before taxes and shipping. (comes out to $0.020555/1GB)
• CMR drive instead of SMR
• 5 year warranty from Toshiba
• 512 MB buffer cache

Currently (as of Dec 19, 2024) this is the cheapest 3.5" hard drive that's best for value.

The next closest in terms of value would be either the 8TB Seagate Barracuda Compute, or the 16TB Toshiba N300 Pro depending on your preference of same Price/GB with lower capital costs, or higher likelihood of availability for additional purchases >1.

The 12TB Seagate IronWolf is disqualified for this value based discussion as it's sold by Amazon's Refurb site from a 3rd party with an additional $107.99 for delivery charges.

24 inch 1080p - (orig. 149.99) $99.99 + $3 EHF + tax

27 inch 1080p - (orig. 199.99) $127.99 + $3 EHD + tax

Not bad price for these. Valid until 12 Dec 2024.

Original YouTube Link
NZXT continues to be shitty surprise surprise

Please call out this bullshit, get your money back, and fuck over NZXT:

• Canada - Office of Consumer Affairs
• US - FTC Report Fraud

If you have any information that you'd like to share to Gamers Nexus about this mess you can email them at tips@gamersnexus.net

Previous Discussion Threads:

• NZXT's non-apology vid on Dec 5, 2024
• NZXT's initial response on Dec 2, 2024
• Original Exposé Details on Dec 1, 2024

If you're currently considering on buying a new Graphics Card (GPU) for your computer it's advised to hold for now as:

We strongly believe you should not buy a graphics card right now. This is because we're expecting the announcement of next gen GPUs in the first week of January 2025. This is when the consumer electronics show takes place in Las Vegas and during the show we expect NVIDIA to announce the Geforce RTX 50 series and AMD to announce RDNA 4 based GPUs. New graphics cards means the potential for new levels of performance at existing price points..and for improvements in price to performance at the very least and that could be anything from a minor gain to a modest gain based on the last couple of generations.

• 1:33

Again what this means is that customers who hold off on buying are more likely to have a larger window for better deals as the flood of newer GPUs should push the price of previous gen cards somewhat lower than the newest ones on the market.

Tim from Hardware Unboxed (in the primary vid I linked) does a great and thorough breakdown🤌 on the current price to performance comparisons that I would highly recommend watching whenever you get the chance to do so!~🫡

If you're new to buying PC components please be advised in that I would highly recommend watching some GPU performance comparisons (such as GN's 7900 GRE review and comparisons) as otherwise you might accidentally buy a new GPU but with the performance of the previous series for a higher cost :/

If you like this write up from me please consider on to my Liberapay as your support will help me fund the creation of higher quality posts such as this one!🤗

While this isn't a sale I wanted to share this vid here as the Lancool 217 is currently the top competitor for both thermals and price!

Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP):

• $80 USD / ~$110 CAD (Before shipping and tax)
  (the 110 is an approximate as the import/duty fees will create a price difference)

Canadian Listings

• Dark Blue Variant
  • $105.00 backorder from shoprbc (please read updates in the comments below)
  • [Lowest on sale is $114.98 from Newegg.ca]
• White Variant
  • [Lowest on sale is $119.98 from Newegg.ca]

American Listings

• Dark Blue Variant
  • $79.98 USD (As of Oct 4, 2024)
• White Variant
  • $84.99 USD (As of Oct 4, 2024)

Edit:

• Oct 24, 2024 - added lowest prices to both case options.
• Nov 3, 2024 - revised lowest prices for both cases.
• Nov 27, 2024 - Retroactively replaced the original youtube link to an Invidious one. And updated the current lowest prices.

I haven't bought from Amazon in several years, but I made an exception for this deal. I've never seen this go below $80 before.

Costs I estimate to be typical for 1 HDD, about 120USD which is about 170CAD

For 5 HDDs, I estimate about 485USD which is about 685CAD.

Ymmv, and these drives are if you just want bulk capacity at the lowest price over all else.

I have updated some dependencies and refactored the posting mechanism, now the bot should correctly post to Lemmy. Previously Reddit's RSS was broken, then the lemmy Python dependencies became outdated, which caused the bot to be out of commissuion for a while.

It seems the bot has stopped reposting content from Reddit?

Just picked one up. This is the best price I've seen this year. Very strange monitor but awesome for work - it even serves as a USB-C docking station with 90W power delivery.

Hey all,

I've been pretty absent from this community over the summer. Life got a hold of me and I've been pretty busy. In my absence, a bot was made by @Poutinetown that was wonderful and able to post deals which is what I had originally hoped could be done for this community. I've made @Poutinetown a mod so that if I go absent again (I will try not to), at least someone can attempt to keep things going.

I have also reached out to a couple of the admins of this instance in hopes of getting the bot unbanned, since without it, it is a rather quiet community and who REALLY wants to manually post deals? Let's hope that this can be resolved!

I was wondering why the Reddit deals were no longer being shown here, especially the $1300 Dell PC with RTX3080+7700x.

It turns that bot was banned. I don't think there's any explanation available, guess bots are just not welcome in this instance?

Anyway, it was a great run, but guess Reddit couldn't be replaced in the end.

Howdy everyone. As this community begins to get more members, I'm looking for anyone with experience with RSS capable of auto-posting from other sites (RFD, r/bapcsalescanada, etc.) so that deals can be posted frequently on here (and while they are still on). From my understanding, I can for example, use: "https://www.reddit.com/r/bapcsalescanada/.rss" to get the rss feed for r/bapcsalescanada, but I am not sure on how to get it to post in this community.

Additionally, if there is something equivalent to the specs bot that is capable of posting the specs of ssds, or BapcsBotCanada that posts similar deals that have been posted recently.