Comment on HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue

9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ArfArfWoof@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I read news of SATA SSDs spiking in price just a few hours ago. Gonna go to sleep now, expecting a spike in floppy disk prices when I wake up and punch cards tomorrow evening.

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  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Didn’t Samsung say that they weren’t making consumer Sata ssds anymore? Jfc we really are going to the whole “you own nothing”.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      1000002598

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unless they use IP to prevent new producers from entering the market, there should be a response eventually.

      HDDs are precision machinery, of course, but not lost alien technology only old big companies can make.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      wasnt that MICRON?

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      • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No I believe micron was RAM jskillz

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Enshittification, but on a massive scale.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    resulting in cheapflation, and shrinkflation eventually.

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