Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

• Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI datacenters buying up the hardware is why their hosting costs increased. Worsening the problem significantly.

  I’m sorry but this is bullshit. For basic storage you absolutely don’t need a lot of RAM or SSDs, older gen hard drives are extremely easy to find and very cheap. People have been hypnotized into believing they absolutey definitely need the latest gen of hardware, without realizing it’s useless, and it’s the only kind of hardware that knows shortages and high prices.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Where have you been?

    A 2tb hard drive I bought about 6 months ago is now double its price.

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  • AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The same mechanical hard drive I bought for $250 three years ago is now going for $500 online USED. I was lucky enough to see a Microcenter listing them as in-stock for $410 about two months ago and drove an hour each way to get the last one. I haven’t seen them available new since.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dude, in case you weren’t paying attention the last two weeks, HDDs are practically already sold out through their expected 2026 output. I is not just ran and ssds.

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  • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    tomshardware.com/…/western-digital-is-already-sol…

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