@martijnbraam Seagate sounded the alarm about huge HDD demand almost two years ago: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/seagate_hdd_prices/

I assume they're being used to store the millions of identical copies of wikipedia slop shops repeatedly scrape (and every other website)

Though a lot of this is probably panic buying causing automated pricing algorithms to freak out, supply chains rarely have any slack so an unexpected bump in consumer demand can wreak havoc.