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  3. Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

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  • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

    Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

    In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

    https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

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    @campuscodi

    Be interesting if, having locked up the market, AI companies start arbitraging SSDs.

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    • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

      Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

      In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

      https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

      Allan ChowG This user is from outside of this forum
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      Allan Chow
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      @campuscodi dude how much of that is like just for swap

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      • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

        Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

        In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

        https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

        crazyeddieC This user is from outside of this forum
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        crazyeddie
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        @campuscodi If they buy up all the hard drive space then you don't have any opportunity to build your own shit and store stuff they don't want stored.

        Should maybe be looking at optical next. Might be finding out that for whatever reason AI needs all those 1000 year storage disks too and all the stuff used to make them.

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        • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

          Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

          In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

          https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

          Big Kumera EnergyD This user is from outside of this forum
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          Big Kumera Energy
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          @campuscodi I think they saw the grifting on RAM prices and wanted in. Doubt they actually scored 'huge AI contracts' for their HDD inventory. But who'll prosecute? And in the meantime, every HDD vendor will jump on the chance to up prices.

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          • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

            Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

            In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

            https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

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            @campuscodi

            Just SSD? Because I've been trying to get a couple of HDDs for my home NAS and the prices keep jumping all over the place.

            I wish I had gotten the idea last year, but at least last year I swapped all my hardware before the RAM crisis.

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            • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

              Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

              In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

              https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

              Kat SK This user is from outside of this forum
              Kat SK This user is from outside of this forum
              Kat S
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              @campuscodi Now I'm waiting for China to step in and fill the gap.

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              • Christoffer S.N Christoffer S.

                @campuscodi ffs...

                ... this circle jerk of a circus in acquiring real hardware with make believe money is... quite the circus.

                Would be nice if we can restore this timeline to a previously recorded snapshot, no?

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                @nopatience @campuscodi

                Previous snapshots have been deleted to preserve disk space.

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                • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                  Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                  In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                  https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

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                  Yugthebug
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                  @campuscodi i cant wait for raiding the data centers instead of raiding area 51

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                  • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                    Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                    In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                    https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

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                    @campuscodi@mastodon.social HDD
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                    • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                      Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                      In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                      https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

                      Ben ToddM This user is from outside of this forum
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                      Ben Todd
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                      #19

                      @campuscodi

                      Good job Western Digital drives are shit. I hope data centres have 100% drive failures.

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                      • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                        Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                        In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                        https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

                        The DoctorD This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @campuscodi FUCK

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                        • UrzlG Urzl

                          @campuscodi I feel like this snaps the trap shut on consumers. You'll get your storage from an AI vendor in the cloud or you won't get it at all. And because you can't afford your own backup media, you'll pay what they ask and compromise however they want.

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                          @gooba42

                          I'll get my storage from my stationers before I give money to these AI shysters.

                          @campuscodi

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                          • Kat SK Kat S

                            @campuscodi Now I'm waiting for China to step in and fill the gap.

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                            Ben Todd
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                            @KatS

                            The more I hear about US tech bros, the more I want to move away from US solutions.

                            @campuscodi

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                            • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                              Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                              In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                              https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

                              kwayk42K This user is from outside of this forum
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                              kwayk42
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                              @campuscodi I will not be surprised if we find out later that this was all collusion to artificially inflate prices

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                              • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                                Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                                In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                                https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

                                C.S.StrowbridgeC This user is from outside of this forum
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                                C.S.Strowbridge
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                                @campuscodi

                                I need a new computer, but I won't be able to afford one until after the AI bubble bursts.

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                                • Mastodon MigrationM Mastodon Migration

                                  @campuscodi

                                  Be interesting if, having locked up the market, AI companies start arbitraging SSDs.

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                                  @mastodonmigration @campuscodi

                                  Remember when the founder of WeWork was borrowing money as a company director from WeWork, then using that personal cash to buy buildings that he then leased to WeWork to repay the loans?

                                  Who owns the current options on the blank chips that OpenAI "bought"?

                                  Was it the company or was it Altman hmself?

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                                  • Billy SmithB Billy Smith

                                    @mastodonmigration @campuscodi

                                    Remember when the founder of WeWork was borrowing money as a company director from WeWork, then using that personal cash to buy buildings that he then leased to WeWork to repay the loans?

                                    Who owns the current options on the blank chips that OpenAI "bought"?

                                    Was it the company or was it Altman hmself?

                                    Mastodon MigrationM This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    Mastodon Migration
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                                    @BillySmith @campuscodi

                                    Yup. With these guys if there is the potential for grift, expect grift.

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                                    • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                                      Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                                      In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                                      https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

                                      javensbukanJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      javensbukan
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                                      @campuscodi This is sooooo stooooopid.

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                                      • Catalin CimpanuC Catalin Cimpanu

                                        Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

                                        In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

                                        https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

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                                        Epic Null
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                                        @campuscodi Fuck this bubble. Pop it.

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                                        • David GerardD David Gerard

                                          @campuscodi earnings call: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WDC.BE/earnings/WDC.BE-Q2-2026-earnings_call-406162.html

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                                          @davidgerard @campuscodi time to sell shares!!!

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