Wtf happened? I just wanted to pirate more video games...
>>741857926I think you may be the last person on earth to learn about AI.
>>741857926If you didn't buy at least 1 new SSD in 202 when you saw how the RAM prices went then you are a fucking retard.>2025>not getting m.2
>AI is supposed to usher in an era of "super abundance">churns out slop, jacks up pricesplease it be a fad.
>>741857926>AI Server Demand>NAND Shortage Hikes
>>741857926then buy an HDD. SSDs are for the OS
>>741858018>>741858207A.I. needs end consumer low quality 2TB SSDs? For what? I have no idea what you are talking about. For what, that does ChatGPT need 2TB SSDs?
>>741858187the only sl*p is your buzzwordAI is doing well. It's not any "fad", it's here to stay forever.
>>741858321True. And if you are hoarding installers then just external HDDs.
>>741858187any company that's heavily invested in ai still hasn't come close to turning a profit from it. they might prop it up for a year or two more before it crashes it brings the u.s economy down with it.
>>741857926we lostmaybe things will get better by 2036
>>741858402okay let me know when it makes any money
>>741858481Yeah AI just isn't there yet. Maybe in 10 years
>>741858187>abundanceLiterally an astroturfed term by a kabal of all the super billionaire tech bros. The influencers failing to push that were on the list of that website that got leaked last week.
>>741858321On average both SSDs and HDDs have pretty much doubled in price since last September so no matter what you pick, you're getting fucked over regardless.
>>741858534Nasedbasedbased
>>741858321>then buy an HDD>20 TB WD Red in 2024: $370>20 TB WD Red in 2026: $950
>>741858550its already making billionaires billions more
Should've stocked up when it was possible still.
>>741857926???
>>741858819What a waste of money wtf
>>741858804they made billions by spending trillionsnice economy
>>741858386AI doesn't need these SSDs specifically but like all products that contain some form of memory the manufacturer can either sell those memory components in something geared towards AI or use the staff and resources allocated to said product to produce something else that can be sold to AI companies for way more profit.
>>741858902Not at all, they're filling up quickly.
>>741858386First of all, that's a SATA drive. Samsung is largely trying to focus on NVME production.Second, crucial completely bailing out of the consumer market didn't do prices any favors. The less supply, the higher demand, the pricier shit gets. This is basic shit even a 2nd grader knows.Lastly, it's not like each particular model of SSD uses completely different materials. Everyone's gobbling this shit up. There's less to go around, so they make choices where to allocate what they've got. See supply demand again.It's not hard. If my dumb ass can work out this much, your big brain should've been able to as well.
>>741858819>HDDNiggers, stop buying this and make endless loading in r6s. It's not 2012 now.
>>741858402It's already been here for like 30 years, it's not going anywhere but the retarded hype around it that's ruining everything is gonna die.
>>741859179>The less supply, the higher demand, the pricier shit gets. This is basic shit even a 2nd grader knows.A.I. needs end consumer low quality 2TB SSDs?
>>741858113Only ram you could get in 202 was the sheep ones
>>741859248Those are for storage only, Anon.
You can still get a high speed external SSD for pretty cheap, those don't seem to have been affected as much in price. You can run retro emulators directly off them, for newer games you can store them on there and transfer them to your main SSD faster than you'd be able to download them on Steam. Not the most elegant solution but just about works for now.
>>741858321HDDs are going up in price too. I was thinking of buying a NAS shortly before sam altman fucked everything up and the prices were rising by the day until they went out of stock completely.
>>741858819>>741859123Based hoarder
>>741859305Did you read his whole post?
>>741859305Because the raw materials are being heavily diverted to enterprise AI, the consumer SSD market is basically drying up. This "trickle-down shortage" has severe consequences for the everyday PC builder
>>741859123With what? Child porn?
>>741859410A.I. needs end consumer low quality 2TB SSDs? Are you indian?
None of these price hikes are directly caused by AI. Chip shortage due to AI companies buying boatloads of chips is a lie. There aren't shelves of "reserved for [AI company]" chips sitting in warehouses. Consumer grade components come from different factories and are created under different BOMs. The reality is the j*ws are simply using current topic (AI) to jack the prices up of consumer grade goods (computer hardware) to push towards a you-will-own-nothing future. It works quite well since useful idiots and normalniggercattle that think they are smart but actually aren't (example: >>741859179) think "that makes sense its computer stuff and AI needs computer stuff" and will play defense for them. AI is the scapegoat.
>>741857926>>741858839Samsung discontinued sata ssd production and are only doing M.2 ssd's from now on. It was quietly announced earlier this year. A couple of tech tuber channels had a video on it back when they got word
>>741858321the prices of HDD are also going up retard, last year in January i bought a 5 TB HDD, it was 120, now the same HDD from the same company is 180
>>741859352No, stop. Use SSD for your hentai storage. You always "accidentally" install r6s on HDD, always.I mean really how can you use HDD in 2026??? I replaced them in like 2014. Are they still making noises?
>>741857926>sata
>>741859305Big machine makes all memory chips. All memory chips bought by data centers. No memory chips for dumb concumers like you. Capish?
>>741859305>>741859074
>>741859459So it's an artificial shortage and not a real shortage? So why not just start making end consumer SSDs again?
>>741859463How's that the first thing you come up with?Vidya, of course. Books, movies, series, music. Anything they've once more enshittified getting your hands on over the years.
>>741859639meds
>>741858708>20TBYou don't need that much.
>>741859731Because all the materials are bought up by datacenters. Learn to read.
>>741859820(You) don't need that much, you mean?
>>741859639we really need to nuke india
>>741859820What if I'm an archiver?
>>741859591Thanks, but why end SATA SSD production? It makes no sense...
when they said you'll own nothing and be happy playing cloud gaming by 2030, did you think they weren't serious?
>>741858654>>741859387>>741859629>the prices of HDDs are also going up, so therefore, your argument is invalid and you should use a 2TB+ SSD for everything
>>741859836>Learn to readSo it's an artificial shortage and not a real shortage... why not just start making end consumer SSDs again?
>>741857926?
>>741859907Sex
>>741859902Because you didn't pay as much as high end. You get nothing. You lose.
wd blues are at 90 bucks
>>741859731There is a real shortage because Samsung like all the other manufacturer would rather spend their limited production capacity on selling to enterprise for more profit. Just like NVIDIA could churn out RTX 5060s for a modest profit but they focus on data center GPUs to earn a gajillion dollars.
>>741859973$3? what a steal
>>741859907>I build my entire world view around clickbait headlines
>>741859963Garmeesh, your bot is stuck in a loop! Boot it up again!
>>741859985Female
>>741860029Thanks
>>741857926Why didn't you all invest in memory a year ago? You would've made over 10x.
>>741860034>the WEF exists just to make clickbait news articles
>>741858187If you haven't learned anything by now, when the rich and/or powerful get away with something, it only gets worse for everybody else.
>>741860091That's ifne
>>741860117Did you, Anon? Congrats!
>>741860091YUCK!
>>741859901Start mass compressing.
>>741859820shalom
Do you losers really not get bored complaining about the same thing every single day?
I got a 2TB M2 in my PC and a 1 TB small external SSD for stroage. I only keep my favourite games installed and i only save my favourite anime and hentai. I don't really need more at the moment. Stop hoarding random shit
>bought two 4TB kingston renegade furys back in november of 2024 for around $260ish each>it's currently selling for $999 on newegg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%93present_global_memory_supply_shortage
>>741860260Do you know what archiving data implies?
>>741860141I still own my PC. Why does discourse require us to pretend we're living in your retarded schizo bullshit? You're fucking annoying and really should be killed.
>>741858610Nah, they are right about housing and rent prices being high due to artificial scarcity. Lefties hate them because they don't want to accept basic economics like supply and demand. Meanwhile Democrat cities keep getting worse
>>741860482>pc parts exist for an eternity and you never have to replace themblow your fucking brains out
>Have 1tb SSD that has filled up with porn>Run dupeguru>Delete 40gb of duplicate files>Open irfanview and mass convert all images to jpg>gain another 60gb>Use webm for lazies to turn large mp4s into webms. Also trim out the parts of videos I never watch.>Gain about 10gbI am drawing blood from a stone and it's actually working. I "generated" about $40 of space just by doing this.
>>741860348>Stop hoarding random shitNo, I'm hoarding more than ever. I even started archiving youtube channels.
>>741860476I assume you have a bunch of repacked games from fitgirl. Am I right? Instead of letting them all exist individually, you could compress the lot of them into one giga zip.
>>741860554If you care this little about the quality of the stuff you're saving, you may as well delete it.
>>741860549Shut the fuck up you worthless degenerate subhuman vermin. There is no subscription computers. There is no popular subscription-based gaming. I know your life sucks and by all objective measures you're a failure, but I'm not going to entertain your doomerism just to make you feel better.>it doesn't matter that I'm a dead-end loser, the world is ending!Just kill yourself.
>>741860141I mean unironically yes
I'm hoping there will be a 1tb SATA or external SSD available for less than $100 come Black Friday. A cheap ass Silicon Power SSD I bought off amazon a few years ago failed on me a few weeks ago, taking much of my Bethesda game mods with it. While I'm still in the process of rebuilding my 2500+ Skyrim mod list, loading them from an HDD is awfully slow.
>>741860554>animetard don't care about quality of porn he watchingchecks out
>>741860629>"Compressing" already compressed data.Not very bright, are you.
>>741858018But why would AI need an SSD? They should use HDDs. SSD should be for humans.
>>741860685>the world ends because there will be no market for pc gaming in the the relative future!!this implication was never made outside your schizo brain. still, find a tall building near you and jump
>>741860743Tell me about compression. Tell me what it does. You'll probably have the lightbulb moment halfway through typing your post, and realise why you need to put everything into 1 compressed file for max gains.
>>741860580B A S E DASEDUnfortunately, my favourite asian amateur pornhub channel deleted all her videos before I could download them. Literally lost media, and people still pretend everything is on the internet forever
>>741859907so true! i also fell for the latest social-media influencer slop!
>>741860663I do not actually need to see the pores on Hitomi Tanaka's tits to find them fappable.
>>741860141>file.jpg>full retardEvery time
>>741860924>>741861001you can stop samefagging and kys
>>741861041Uh oh, melty.
>>741860880Someone out there has it archived somewhere. You will come across it several years from now, somehow, I'm sure.
>>741859305>how could the rise of gas prices affect food prices, are you drinking oil?Holy shit, nigger logic is an unobtainably high level of cognition for you isn't it?
>>741861041>miserable doomslop consumer telling anyone else to kill themselfthere's more than one person that can tell that you're a faggot y'know
>>741861272you are jewish?
>>741858113Hehe i got a 4tb nvme in november before the insane spike it costs 1k now, feelsgoodman. Now i just need to grab some hdd's before they sell out and spike too much.
>>741861169
>>741861326I'm literally Benjamin Netanyahu
>>741858402found the jeet
>>741863170>foundAs if they're trying to hide.
>>741860880>my favouriteThat's why you should at least save your favourite stuff
>>741861001>>file.jpgthat's just the default name for copy pasting an image in your post
>>741863170found the troon
What's the difference between NAS and other HDDs? Every time I look at an ad for one, they make it look like it isn't made for normal pcs.
>>741864010Rated for continuous operation vs. spinning up every now and then.
>>741857926>buy cheap-ish phone>2 weeks after I get it it's an expensive phone all of a sudden ez
>>741860482>>741860482>I own my own pc For how much longer lol > https://keepandroidopen.org/>but it won't happen to meLol, lmao
>>741858926>spending trillionsdoesn't matterbillionaires got richerline is going upgoycattle are pacified because they think their overlords doing better means they themselves are doing better the system is working as designed
Death to AIsloppers.They need to be thrown from rooftops.
>>741859907I already own shit, the challenge is having enough to spare for the coming generations
>>741858113I'm already using the M.2 slots on my motherboard, tho.
>>741857926No joke i built my PC the week the prixes went up because my brother keep pushing me to do it instead of waiting for black friday. Had i waited i wouldn't have a pc right now.
>>741869120I've currently got about 6tb of SSD space, plus 3tb of external hard drives. Should be good for a few more years, after which storage prices drop down again.
>>741869297>He didn't stick an M.2 SSD into an enclosure and use it as portable fast memory. Hahahaha!
>>741868104Calm down sis
>>741857926It's simple; You lost the war, twice in a row.
>>741857926You will own NOTHING.And be HAPPY.Pay your cloud computing subscription like a good goy :D
>>741860839>But why would AI need an SSD?On the off chance this is a genuine questionAI models (the file itself) are massive and numerous. You can have one main file and then a fuckton of "addon" files that can function as "plugins" to help guide the main file to do what you want. This takes up a lot of space. Terabytes.And since you can't load EVERYTHING into your RAM at once, you have to swap files in and out of memory. Well, the files are fucking huge, so what's the fastest way to read files? SSDs
>>741857926Extreme Jewry. The US would be in a recession if it was not for all the AI companies circle wanking each others
im trying to survive :(
did ya know you can get this cool thing on amazonyou can plug your old hdds in like a n64 carts i grabbed one last year and have been using my old drives for anime and stuff
