While the article mentions that it’s mostly enterprise grade hard drives that are becoming more expensive, nonetheless it’s also affecting consumer-level hardware – in addition to memory and GPUs becoming difficult to afford for anyone wishing to just play computer games or create human-made content.
This bubble pop is going to be legendary.
But hey, cheap hardware when it’s all over. Not like we’ll have any money to buy it, but it’s something.
God I can’t wait
please.
We already went through this shit when that drive space based crypto was a thing. I think it was Chia?
And even worse Chia is most likely what caused the glut of counterfeit Seatgate “new” drives that flooded the market.
For those that weren’t aware, after Chia basically failed, all the miners took the drives, edited their SMART values and sold them as new. This also caused massive hit to Seagate’s reliability metrics because so many “new” drives of theirs were failing.
The ended up discovering and shutting the operation down and have locked down their new and refurbished channels to try to reduce counterfeiting.
Why I have double-takes scoping the local used market for hard drives as I saw some suspicious screenshots of diagnostic results where the drives showed up as having zero on hours.
Yeah, it was Chia.
The race to achieve AGI (artificial general intelligence) has pushed
Who’s aiming for AGI?
The marketing team
Snort. Yeah, okay. I’d buy that for a dollar.
Mainly tech bros and large companies whose goal is to do away with that pesky “personnel” line item that costs their company so much and prevents them from hoarding more money.
Though that being said, I firmly believe that LLMs and ML are not the way to AGI and it’ll have to be discovered via a different route.
Investors. It’s the only way they can possibly recoup their sunk costs.
