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

• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There wasn’t as big of a price drop as I thought there would be when the crypto mining switched to ASIC from GPUs. Don’t know of all that hardware just got dumped or is sitting in a rack rotting somewhere. Hope that we get cheaper prices when the bubble pops, this artificial scarcity sucks.

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  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hope that we get cheaper prices when the bubble pops, this artificial scarcity sucks.

    Not likely. Why would they give up money?

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. I know. Wishful thinking.

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      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dare to dream ✊

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