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Damn it, I now see that my local IT store have had to postpone delivery of Seagate drives as well, I have four 8TB Seagate NAS drives in my new NAS I am building, I just need two more to complete the build.
So looks like I am going Toshiba for the last two drives + one cold spare.
The HC530s drives I bought in Nov are 40% more expensive now. My local computer store used to sell 16TB Barracudas for CAD $250 last year. They're $400 now and only available in-store.
Theyyyyyyy are moving us towards clouuuuud computiiiiing...!
Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They are twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.
What's next, PCB producers?
Doubt it. Those don’t require as crazy of infrastructure as microchips. If PCB starts going up, we’re in huge trouble
I really hope this is a temporary supply bottleneck. I understand the constraints of producing chips and highly specialized hardware but AI demand is only going to go up from here.
I'm optimistic a game changer gets whipped out of thin air
It's not really going up....
I got bored with it last year, and have turned off everything but search summaries, as they often just put the answer right up front, no click throughs. Also I use a voice aid to set timers, reminders, and alarms....
And this seems to be a common story lately.
I can't see AI really exploding beyond basic uses like that. Some people are still inovating and playing with AI, but it'll settle down.
They should stop selling hardware to "AI" datacenters entirely
Why would they? It's by far their biggest market. This is capitalism working as designed: sell to the companies running datacenters, then you and they can make money by renting computing resources at a premium to the peasants, and by spying on those peasants as they use it.
Am I going to have to stop using my old hard drives to hold open doors?
Was looking at NVMEs, only $1500 for a small no name Gen 3 with 3gbps max transfer rate.
Some newer and faster name brand drives were listed as $400-500, but they were also out of stock, so those prices probably weren't accurate.
