Guess I should buy that external HDD before the PC market completely shits itself

I've been meaning to get an external backup for a few years but I've been kicking the can down the road in hopes of finding some kind of amazing deal on a huge drive but even the 4TB drives I set as my baseline seem to be getting more expensive.

I'm afraid that with all the AI fuckery going on the prices and availability of everything is gonna go the way of RAM and I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet now