AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.
    • MadBigote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Wdym? Do you believe the manufacturers would try to congincr you they’re out of stock to create scarcity and increace prices?!? Do you jnow how silly that idea is?! \s

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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        6 days ago

        It is not this case, I agree, but to be honest it would not be the first time that some company create an artificial scarcity to keep the prices up.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Same as everyone else? Because it’s a more cost-effective way of storing data?

        • jim3692@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          6 days ago

          No. AI workloads benefit from SSD’s high random read/write performance. Also, I guess, more people starting using SSDs for paging/swap, as RAM prices skyrocketed.

          This resulted in an SSD shortage immediately after RAM starting getting expensive. Which in turn caused an HDD shortage, because people need space to store their data.