Think about all the HDDs that they will sell for cheap in 5 years.
Just thinking about all the electronic waste this is gonna generate is making me feel all icky
plyth@feddit.org 15 hours ago
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?
plyth@feddit.org 8 hours ago
I am no expert. What wears the drive down? Depending on the workloads the drives could be ok.
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.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Will they even by allowed by the contracts to resell them?
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.