Hassam Nasir Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
RTX 2080 I buy BluRay and UHD discs of various films and TV shows I like and Rip them to my PC because 1) long term it is cheaper than paying to maintain 5 different streaming services, 2) the quality is higher, and 3) I prefer owning to subscribing. Consequently, I have a need to keep a large quantity of storage drives on hand. A few months ago an Article was written on this very site announcing Seagate’s new 30TB drives. Right up my alley, so I bought one; $549. Fast forward to 3 weeks ago, there were rumblings that the AI build out would soon create a storage shortage. Remembering the grand old days of Chia mining, I bought a second 30TB drive, the price having already increased to $599. Only 2 days later, the 30TB model was out of stock at Seagate and hasn’t come back in stock since. The 28TB model is currently in stock at $569, more than I paid for my first 30TB model. Who knows if even the 28TB model will be consistently in stock even at these elevated prices in the long term. It’s rough out there people. It honestly reminds me a lot of trying to buy a RTX 3000 series GPU during COVID; they were either impossible to find or hideously overpriced. Oh well, I’m tempted to buy a RTX 5080 just because I can: a few are available at MSRP. Reply
yc1 I swear that this is intentional at this point a excuse to raise prices while not improving their product and if the demand doesn't spike allowing a massive price hike they cut production to keep scarcity high and increase prices like what flash memory and ddr 4 manufacturers did Reply
tamalero yc1 said: I swear that this is intentional at this point a excuse to raise prices while not improving their product and if the demand doesn't spike allowing a massive price hike they cut production to keep scarcity high and increase prices like what flash memory and ddr 4 manufacturers did its a cycle that repeats.. around 4 years ago they complained of RAM being worthless and companies losing money while producing. Aka oversupply of RAM and chips. Same with hard disks.. And before, during crypto.. there was also a shortage… in reality is all production manipulation just like the gas/oil production worldwide. Reply
satoasty Yep and to be fair the governments never wanted people to own their stuff by 2030. Probably works in their favour too. Apart from the stuff I can't prove, is Seagate as reliable as WD I've had a few older drives by Seagate fail on me but 1 was physical on the HDD? Reply
Moxylite Why can't AI be rolled out gradually? Why are TPTB just being straight up A-holes about it? Military, i almost kind of get it -if it prevents aggression from rogue states… but none of the rest of the applications are really important enough to dissolve society and take our shit away! ~! These speedfreak A- lister nerds look so pathetic…such psychotic greedsters, hope it costs them everything! Proper uses that could be SLOWLY applied over a century or so~ Digital Assistants,Finance,Search engines,Social media,Online shopping,Robots Transportation and navigation,Text editing and autocorrect,Fraud prevention,Predictions,Gaming,Healthcare,Advertising,Analytics etc. Reply
Arkitekt78 Yet another thing AI is ruining for humans. This bubble cant pop soon enough. Reply
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ai-triggers-hard-drive-shortage-amidst-dram-squeeze-enterprise-hard-drives-on-backorder-by-2-years-as-hyperscalers-switch-to-qlc-ssds#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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