Imagine if we put this level of effort into something objectively positive for the human race.
Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
Submitted 1 day ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
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sirico@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one 3 minutes ago
Imagine if they put all that money into developing a decent product that might return some actual revenue.
Nah, let use all these PC components for something wasteful.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
Theoretically it should be. We can stop working most jobs and spend our time enjoying ourselves.
Too bad that won’t happen.
BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 day ago
“AI” truly ruins everything.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
What did AL do this time‽
SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You mean capitalism I think.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
On hardware costs, if it produces a large, sustained amount of demand, and if there are fixed costs (e.g. R&D) that can be shared between hardware used for it and other things, it may substantially reduce hardware prices in the long run for other users.
Suppose, to take an example, that there is demand for, oh, completely pulling a number out of the air, 4 times the amount of high bandwidth memory for AI that there is for 3D video cards and video game consoles. That’s on a sustained basis, not just our initial AI buildout. There is going to be some amount of fixed costs that have to be done at Micron and Samsung and the like to figure out how to design and optimize production costs.
That’s going to mean that AI users likely pay something like 80% of the fixed costs for HBM, which may very well lower costs for other users of HBM.
In late 2025 and 2026 there is a huge surge in demand for hardware. There’s a shortage of hardware, and factories don’t get built out overnight. So prices skyrocket, pricing out many users to the point where demand at the new price point matches the available supply. But as production capacity increases, that will also ease.
I do get that it’s frustrating if someone wants to build a system right now.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
In late 2025 and 2026 there is a huge surge in demand for hardware. There’s a shortage of hardware, and factories don’t get built out overnight. So prices skyrocket, pricing out many users to the point where demand at the new price point matches the available supply. But as production capacity increases, that will also ease.
And this is where your entire idea falls apart… The manufacturers have openly stated that they have zero interest in expanding production. They’re trying to avoid a supply surplus after the boom ends, and they know that expanding production now means crashed prices later. Why expand production, when you can simply not spend that money and charge higher prices anyways?
OopsAllEarios@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I get what you’re saying, but weren’t big manufacturers committing to NOT expand production capacities? I can’t remember where I read it, but it felt more like they were just gonna hedge their bets and not build out in the near term.
Not to mention, this all sounds and looks like commitments and not actual orders. It just feels like they’re all playing with imaginary money and when the AI bubble bursts, and all those commitments up and disappear like a fart in the wind, those benefits of scale are also going to disappear and the prices will just stay high.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Even if everything you say comes true I still don’t see the prices coming back down. They never did after covid
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Terminator said AI would destroy humanity. We just didn‘t know it would be with hoarding of natural and manufactured resources to fuel an idiocracy. No pitched and desperate war for the survival of humanity, just a necrosis eating us alive for the quarterly report.
motruck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
In other news grocery stores are out of tomatoes, because AI.
vortexal@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
You know what’s crazy about this AI bullshit. I’ve been wanting to buy a micro SD card for my tablet but the hard drive shortage has caused the price of micro SD cards to double in the past few months, so I might not be able to anytime soon. The only one that’s reasonably priced is from Silicon Power, which is a brand that I’ve never even heard of before.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
even flashdrives have gotten more expensive
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Silicon Power
They’ve been around for a long time, they’re decent.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh fuck…
I just need two more 8TB drives so I can complete my NAS, that is all. Don’t blow up now! Please…
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Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Looks like somebody’s going to be buying hard drives with Affirm lol
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I’m tempted to just say "good, less WD drives around ". But there aren’t a lot, if any, good manufacturers left. What we actually get is probably more Seagate, which is even worse.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 day ago
We’re not getting more anything. AI is taking it all up
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
After the pop there will be plenty of 2nd hand components that were never used or are slightly used.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
We still have Toshiba.
I like their drives.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
stupid idiots