AI Drives Hard Drive Demand and Supply Shortages

Find out why AI is driving up hard drive costs and causing shortages. Learn how this affects consumers and businesses.

#AIstorage, #HardDriveShortage, #TechPrices, #WesternDigital, #AIdata

https://newsletter.tf/why-ai-is-causing-hard-drive-shortages-and-higher-prices/

Hard drive prices are rising because AI needs a lot of storage, much more than last year.

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Why AI is Causing Hard Drive Shortages and Higher Prices

Find out why AI is driving up hard drive costs and causing shortages. Learn how this affects consumers and businesses.

Sandisk Professional will operate solely under the G-Drive brand in the future

Western Digital and Sandisk are moving forward with their separation. WD is now recalling G-Drive branded external hard drives.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Sandisk-Professional-will-operate-solely-under-the-G-Drive-brand-in-the-future-11184395.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

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Sandisk Professional will operate solely under the G-Drive brand in the future

Western Digital and Sandisk are moving forward with their separation. WD is now recalling G-Drive branded external hard drives.

heise online

Externe Festplatten: Sandisk Professional firmiert künftig allein unter G-Drive

Western Digital und Sandisk schreiten bei ihrer Trennung voran. WD holt nun externe Festplatten der G-Drive-Marke zu sich zurück.

https://www.heise.de/news/Externe-Festplatten-Sandisk-Professional-firmiert-kuenftig-allein-unter-G-Drive-11184050.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Festplatten #IT #SanDisk #WesternDigital #news

Externe Festplatten: Sandisk Professional firmiert künftig allein unter G-Drive

Western Digital und Sandisk schreiten bei ihrer Trennung voran. WD holt nun externe Festplatten der G-Drive-Marke zu sich zurück.

heise online
Western Digital und Sandisk schreiten bei ihrer Trennung voran. WD holt nun externe Festplatten der G-Drive-Marke zu sich zurück. #Western Digital

Externe Festplatten: Sandisk P...

📡 Readable only via electron microscope – no optical method works at this scale
🔐 TU Wien Prof. Mayrhofer: "small, stable and repeatedly readable" – critical for real-world deployment

💰 Investor: #WesternDigital backs Cerabyte – disclosed since last May
🚀 Next steps: improving write speeds, scalable manufacturing & developing more complex data structures beyond QR codes

With SanDisk Spun Off, WD is Reviving and Relaunching the G-Drive Brand

Western Digital is reviving the G-Drive brand and transitioning all of the HDD products that used to be SanDisk Professional over to it.

PetaPixel

Western Digital has zero hard drives left for 2026. It’s February...

AI companies are deliberately creating physical memory scarcity so your data only lives on their infrastructure.

The goal is not innovation. It's holding your memories hostage and forcing you to rent space and useless AI compute that serves no real purpose.

https://gizmodo.com/because-of-ai-western-digital-hard-drives-are-sold-out-2000722591

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AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.

Gizmodo