Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

• regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now may not be a good time to tell you about the Windows 10 EoL that recently lapsed, then.

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Think about all the HDDs that they will sell for cheap in 5 years.

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  • Kyuuketsuki@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not really ever in the market for drives with forth thousand power on hours, are you?

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    • plyth@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am no expert. What wears the drive down? Depending on the workloads the drives could be ok.

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  • Bababasti@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That might be a silver lining, but I also see a high possibility of companies just throwing everything onto a big pile of garbage or shipping it to fuck knows where instead of dealing with the hassle of reselling their no longer needed assets.

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    • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Will they even by allowed by the contracts to resell them?

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