Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.
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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/
@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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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/
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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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/
@campuscodi Now I'm waiting for China to step in and fill the gap.
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@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?
Previous snapshots have been deleted to preserve disk space.
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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/
@campuscodi i cant wait for raiding the data centers instead of raiding area 51
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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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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/
Good job Western Digital drives are shit. I hope data centres have 100% drive failures.
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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/
@campuscodi FUCK
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@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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@campuscodi Now I'm waiting for China to step in and fill the gap.
The more I hear about US tech bros, the more I want to move away from US solutions.
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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/
@campuscodi I will not be surprised if we find out later that this was all collusion to artificially inflate prices
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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/
I need a new computer, but I won't be able to afford one until after the AI bubble bursts.
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Be interesting if, having locked up the market, AI companies start arbitraging SSDs.
@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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@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?
Yup. With these guys if there is the potential for grift, expect grift.
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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/
@campuscodi This is sooooo stooooopid.
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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/
@campuscodi Fuck this bubble. Pop it.
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@davidgerard @campuscodi time to sell shares!!!
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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.
@crazyeddie @campuscodi yeah sadly optical topped out at 100GB, 128GB discs are long unproduced. Not feasible for big storage...
I expect LTO to get hit price wise too as everyone tries to make do in an HDD supply shortage.
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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/
I'm not that well versed in how AI companies operate on a technical level, but what would they need massive amounts of HDDs for? Surely when doing something as GPU centric as LLMs, HDDs are way too slow to be in the loop.
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I'm not that well versed in how AI companies operate on a technical level, but what would they need massive amounts of HDDs for? Surely when doing something as GPU centric as LLMs, HDDs are way too slow to be in the loop.
@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online dataset archival maybe?
@campuscodi@mastodon.social
