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

• Kyuuketsuki@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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