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Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I'm looking at second hand drives, but even those go for โ‚ฌ100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? ๐Ÿ˜

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[โ€“] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

somebody is going to want cash in

Maybe. The hard drive makers have long experience with boom-bust cycles. They are likely trying to figure out if this is real, or just a blip and in a two years (when the new factory opens!) demand drops again.

If there is new capacity in the future my guess (guess!) is that this is a case of a new factory to replace the old, and they just keep running the old for another year instead of scrapping it right away.