We are so fucked for the next couple of years. https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
You mean (You) are. I built a NAS last year, with >100TB storage.
>>108162661I got 10x 4TB HDDs that I don't even use, still packaged, same with 10x 2TB NVMEs.
We? I have all the storage, GPU and RAM I need for the next couple of years
How is this legal
>>108162661We’re already in a new gilded age and the rich can literally just buy up everything. They can buy countries, for god’s sakes. It’s gotten out of control and there’s nothing we can do.
>>108162661>NO, WE CAN'T MAKE MORE, BECAUSE…WELL WE JUST CAN'T OKAY?!?!
>>108162661Be the change you want to see in the world. 3D volumetric storage is a hot topic in optoelectronics rn. You could get started with a lab for below 50k
>>108162814more like everyone is except for you and a handful of other autismos
General Purpose computing is dead, the war is over, they won.
>>108162661>thanks a lot AI>customer makes a purchase>the vendors greedily hike up prices>the customer is at faultI hate commies so much bros
>>108162838YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.
>>108163043>customer makes a "purchase">actually just borrowed money that doesn't exist yetgood job
>>108162661>Tan shared that most of the storage space has been allocated to its "top seven customers." >Three of these companies already have agreements with Western Digital for 2027 and even 2028. >thanks to a surge in demand from its enterprise customers, the consumer market now accounts for just 5 percent of the company's revenue>5 percentSo the next 3 years are already bought out too, and since the consumer market is so small, they really don't care either. This is the end result of unchecked capitalism. I really do think it's over for users to have personal desktop computers. Everything will just be a service.
>>108162833>couple of yearslmao
>>108162838It's "legal" cause the billionaires own the faggots that make the law.
Who the fuck uses hard drives?
>>108163118I have 500TB worth of HDD's. That would cost $100k in SSD's, so I do, fucking retard.
Blame Microslop for forcing new computer sales with Windows 11. If people could safely use Windows 10 legally until the computer naturally died we would have more hardware to go around.
>>108162661Are you happy yet?
>>108163202idk most consumers treat PCs as disposable objects anyway nowadays
Americans voted for this
>>108162838US government is supporting it:https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdfhttps://www.ai.mil/Latest/News-Press/PR-View/Article/4242822/cdao-announces-partnerships-with-frontier-ai-companies-to-address-national-secu/https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC
Doomers are retarded and are most likely shills trying to make people panic buy.There have been deals made and supply reserved, but most of these deals are going to fall through. Most data centers are going to be unbuild and unused and they will dump all of the unused hardware onto the market.>but you vill own nothing!!Don't get me wrong, (((they))) want to do that but it only goes to show how more retarded everyone, even the powerful, have gotten. We have already been in peak survallience state for decades. Everyone "owning" computers and phones was the key to that. To take away the bread and circus will wake up even the most asleep normalcattle, as is currently happening. They are literally making things harder for themselves than it needs to be. Old blue bloods who knew the game are dying and its all tech dorks and jeets trying to cash out.
>>108163202this has zero effect on the hdd market
>>108162833>He thinks it's gonna last a couple yearsI bring grave news.
>>108162661dont blame the tech. blame american jews. they dont give a shit about consumers but thinking about consumers is commy shit so burgers will eat the goy slop and shut up because the fuck are golems gonna do?
>>108162838I don't think there's some grand conspiracy. A lot of very retarded rich morons and even the US government invested trillions of dollars in AI companies, enabling them to buy up every single piece of hardware on earth, which they're currently in the process of.
>>108162838>how is it legal to buy up goods
>>108163251keep on fighting the good fight, waitfag whatever helps you cope with missing the last plane out
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>>108162838bro this is just the free marketYou clearly derive less utility from that 10GB hard drive than the big tech company does, otherwise you'd be willing to pay as much as them.I don't think WD would starve its other customers purely because big tech is buying in bulk. I assume they are paying more too.
>>108163029you vill run only source code deemed to be within guidelines on your copilotOS
>>108162661No we aren't. AI is the future. Diverting as much capacity as possible to AI will enhance and improve all human life. Immediately and forever. AI is the absolute best use of all human resources at this moment. If we do not rush ahead we will all be left behind. If you are not using AI to enhance every aspect of your life and are not evangelizing AI with all your heart at every moment you are stealing from the future. Face it. AI is the future and you are a Left Behind Luddite.
>>108162661>weI can afford a few hundred bucks on an item.to you thats like a years wages, right?
>>108164060this but unironically
>>108162851The average first world right now can buy a lifetime of calories food with about 4 weeks of salary, doesn't even have to be wealthy.
>>108163385I built a new PC last year. If your masochist dystopian fantasies were true then all of us are fucked, not just waitfags. Your hardware is going last at most a decade and if you think they would go so far as to price out regular people from computers forever what makes you think they won't come up with an excuse to confiscate your hardware?
Has anybody been keeping a list of companies that have chosen to allow AI datacenters to pre-purchase literal years worth of products to the point that they stop supporting the consumer market completely? I want to remember this when they try to come crawling back to us so I don't end up giving a single one of them business.
>>108162661I snagged a few 2tb blues (cmr) from and SA510s from my local walmart of all places.
>>108164238lmao as if we have a choice, when 2-3 top dogs control 90% of the pc hardware market
>>108164148>Your hardware is going last at most a decademid-high end hardware today will last far longer than a decade unless you need to play latest AAA slop in 2036I was using a low end laptop from 2013 till end of last year, albeit i did upgrade it to a sata ssd in 2022>if you think they would go so far as to price out regular people from computers forever what makes you think they won't come up with an excuse to confiscate your hardware?because that's illegal and retarded. There's many many worlds of difference between legally buying up supply and subtly altering the choices of normalfags from buying pcs to renting or using their phones and cloud compute, and somehow coming up with an excuse to start kicking down the doors of the .01% of people who built their own pc a decade ago. That's not going to happen.
>>108164238if you were a business, you would not give two shits about supporting consumers who only account for like 0.01% of your revenue. this is silly. do you think any ceo who is making millions from this is going to be up at night about not letting little jimmy buy their shit for cheap? no. they dont care.
>>108164317*normalfags and corporations
>>108164317>mid-high end hardware today will last far longer than a decadeAverage rate of failure is 3 years, good luck. Modern hardware is pure shit designed to fail a month after warranty.>because that's illegal The laws already allow this. Just l ook at any at anti terrorism law, governments can declare anything a terrorist tool.
>>108162661i only hate 3 TB. is it worth it to succumb to FOMO and get one big HDD?
>>108162661So? Seagate still exists
Next couple of years? Personal computing is over forever annon. Waitfags and horders are fucked equally.
>>108164365you're the only one with masochist dystopian fantasies here. no fucking law is being passed making laypeople with computers be branded as terrorists, that's delusional
>>108164393The law is already passed genius. The government can name anything as a terrorist tool.
>>108162661Stop being poor.
>>108164373Is seagate still trash these days? I might have to convert.
>>108164406>The government can name anything as a terrorist tool.Who cares? Maybe in your thirdie shithole, yeah.
>>108164238>so I don't end up giving a single one of them business.The chance to loot tech companies is now anon. If you want to be angry at them, be part of the supply chain they rely on and ever increase prices (as it is currently happening)
>>108162661You realize when the manufacturer says they're sold out for the year, many of purchasers are retailers, right? Like the people you would actually be buying from. You're still going to be able to buy hard drives you retards.
the ai bubble has quite literally just burst, even normie media are reporting how much of a scam it is
can't wait to see literal mountains of discarded RAM, GPUs and hard drives destroyed when investors lose confidence that AI companies can ever live up to the hypewhat a waste
>>108164913If this is what the AI bubble burst looks like, it's pretty unimpressive
>>108164927its a snowball and it only just started getting traction
>>108164891They leave these parts out on purpose. Wouldn't be baiting as efficient. Most users here might be bots now, even if they are human technically XD
>>108163354plenty of laws in different countries and the US exist for many different materials and products that you can't buy in bulk for strategic reasons, but you have to go through at least high school to know this
>>108164863Literally in the post 9/11 murrican laws.>>108164891>many of purchasers are retailers,Literally says in the article it is mostly AI companies buying it. Retailers are told to GTFO.
im running out of space
guys guys listen guys hey listen I just boughted 500 harddrives before this happened guys listen i will be fine ok listen LOOK LISTEN HERE I HAVE 500 HARDRIVES ARE YOU LISTENHING
>>108162838Don't make the mistake of conflating legality, which matters little, and morality, which matters significantly.
>>108163230>>108163202Are you ready for boomers to sell their 2nd hand pcs on Facebook marketplace at overly inflated prices because it's either that it $10k GPUs>Don't lowball me, I know what I've got!
>>108165258KWAB
>>108164148This is unironically the one use case for Linux as a desktop OS, I suppose you could just use customised LTSC Windows forever too
>>108164238>>108164289If that happens then we do, only buy up the 2nd hand stuff. Simple as. 2nd hand and waitfag it out for photonic interconnects, quantum dots, 3D stacks, moving off of silicon etc
>>108164365>3 years. I had my laptop for about 8 years before my current build 2-3 years ago - i13700k, rtx4080, I'm good
>>108165338it's not boomers' fault the market-clearing price on used hardware is increasing
>>108164913Cool, when do we get components again?
>>108164317>because that's illegal and retarded.Pricing out regular consumers for a chance to create god out of a chatbot is retarded. Pricing out regular consumers from willingly buying spyware themselves and forcing them pay subscription fees to stream which is already known to have limited success/maybe be physically infeasible at such a scale, is retarded. If you are being that retarded already confiscating hardware is nothing.
>>108162838just vote with your wallet :^)
>>108162838It's a Free Market. If you don't Like it then Start a Business and do Something Different.
>>108165620This. If consumers want to be catered to, they should just buy harder.
>>108165338>>Don't lowball me, I know what I've got>don't have a GPULMAO. Ok, Boomer.
Let me know when AI can change a diaper.
>>108162879it's only really enterprise and autismos that need a bajillion terabytes of storage anyway. most computer hardware these days is ricemaxxing for nerds.
>>108165488>limited successThat is the stupidest thing here. They have an cheap consumer option to spy on everybody and are going or replace it with something that is not supported infrastructure wise and will be expensive.
>it's AI's fault>not Trump's
>>108162851I am sure we will get basic income soon as AI replaces us all...
>>10816581498% of people will never need more than a TB and im counting the guys playing triple a games in thattake them out and it's more like 250 GB
>>108165659The point is that this manipulates the market to squeeze OpenAI's competitors, making it inherently not free.
