Unless things have changed recently LLMs don’t really used slow data stores with very high capacity such as HDDs, at least not beyond the training stage.
The prices that have been pushed up are for GPUs and DRAM (which in turn possibly feeds down to other chips done in the same kind of fab), whilst this stuff is magnetic data storage on movable disk plates, a very different tech.
I expect these things at most will only be affected very indirectly (for example, if memory prices go up because of all the datacenters targetting AI applications, there might be fewer datacenters set up for other kinds of server side application which are more data-centric, which would impact demand for ultra high-capacity HDDs).
No that it makes a difference to us run-of-the-mill techies as consumers - even if HDDs get cheaper, with many times more expensive GPUs and RAM we can hardly put together new systems using these things, so at best it might just get a bit cheaper to expand one’s large storage NAS (the slower kind just storing data that doesn’t get accessed often, as the other kind uses SDDs).
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 days ago
But is LTO next? Is AI coming for my tapes??
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bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Let AI have them, bro. Let AI have them.