alt Hacker Newsalso bought a handful of 14 to 16tb drives. They sold for such a low price last year I thought it can't be wrong to grab them.
It's odd mechanical disks also surged, I thought it was only transistor based memory that are becoming rarity.
Or does it work like with fuel, gas and electricity goes up when oil spikes ?
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walterbell • today at 7:31 PM
GenAI and/or smart glasses video? WD already sold their entire 2026 production of nearline drives for data centers.
epistasis • today at 7:55 PM
I've seen lots of articles on HN of AI startups building massive drive arrays for mass storage.
AI runs on data above all else. Gotta feed the compute.
Yeah I have no idea the direct cause. I didn't think that the SATA controllers for a hard drive took that much.
It could be a secondary effect; SSDs have gotten so expensive that people are willing to put up with spinners and thus there's an increased demand. No idea, I'm sure an economist or something will do a write up of the downstream effects of the RAM crunch causes eventually.