Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up
>According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.
To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.
It’s most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don’t hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.
www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/01/05/…/9641767634540/
Doesn’t seem to be meeting expectations in that sector either.
Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition…etc
Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors.
On temporary contracts and at reduced wages of course because times are tough.
Software engineers predicted this would happen. The percentage of developers that love fixing other people’s code is essentially zero, fixing ai code is even smaller.
If they require low wages, they’ll only get the worst of the worst. Expect this phase to repeat until they are forced to hire for competence and pay above market rate required to convince senior developers to deal with not just the ai mess but all the failed attempts to turn it around.
I am start to think they are going on the acceleroism theory to push the society to the limits and destroy all for change
Some think this could lead to a more equallytary society, some wants to make a more centralized and controlled by one power sort of society, there is 2 different school of thought on this.
But we are clearly going to have big changes
The water things still baffles me out. Like…just…cycle it. It’s a heat exchange system.
What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it?
Evaporative cooling. They’re trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they’re cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.
The amount of heat generated is so large they can’t properly cool it with a closed loop system.
I, for one, applaud anything that helps destroy the current Intellectual Property system,
Not the other things, though.
Agreed.
One single potentially good thing in the middle of bad things still adds to something bad.
My point is that this shit is happening either way no matter how shit it all is, so if we can recognize and extract one good thing out of it at least on the other side we’ll have one good thing, whilst if we don’t, we’ll have nothing good at all.
Are now? Haven’t they been using flash first?
Hard drives suck for that work load. Their seek times are huge, their throughput is awful, and they’re worse storage density than HDDs. You can fit 24 2.5" ssds into a 2u server. 16TB in a 2.5" > 24TB in 3.5" SSDs were first to skyrocket in price vs HDDs.
Cue that guy laughing in between mountains of toilet paper
Hungry Mungry sat at supper, Took his knife and spoon and fork, Ate a bowl of mushroom soup, ate a slice of roasted pork, Ate a dozen stewed tomatoes, twenty-seven deviled eggs, Fifteen shrimps, nine bakes potatoes, Thirty-two fried chicken legs, A shank of lamb, a boiled ham, Two bowls of grits, some black-eye peas, Four chocolate shakes, eight angel cakes, Nine custard pies with Muenster cheese, Ten pots of tea, and after he, Had eaten all that he was able, He poured some broth on the tablecloth And ate the kitchen table. His parents said, ‘Oh Hungry Mungry, stop these silly jokes.’ Mungry opened up his mouth, and ‘Gulp,’ he ate his folks. And then he went and ate his house, all the bricks and wood, And then he ate up all the people in the neighborhood. Up came twenty angry policeman shouting, ‘Stop and cease.’ Mungry opened his mouth and ‘Gulp,’ he ate the police. Soldiers came with tanks and guns. Said Mungry, ‘They can’t harm me.’ He just smiled and licked his lips and ate the U.S. Army.
The President sent all his bombers- Mungry still was calm, Put his head back, gulped the planes, and gobbled up the bomb. He ate his town and ate the city- ate and ate and- And then he said, ‘I think I’ll eat the whole United States.’
And so he ate Chicago first and munched the Water Tower, And then he chewed on Pittsburgh but he found it rather sour. He ate New York and Tennessee, and all of Boston town, Then drank the Mississippi River just to wash it down. And when he’d eaten every state, each puppy, boy and girl He wiped his mouth upon his sleeve and went to eat the world.
He ate the Egypt pyramids and every church in Rome, And all the grass in Africa and all in ice in Nome. He ate each hill in green Brazil and then to make things worse He decided for dessert he’d eat the universe.
He started with the moon and stars and soon as he was done He gulped the clouds, he sipped the wind and gobbled up the sun. Then sitting there in the cold dark air, He started to nibble his feet, Then his legs, then his hips Then his neck, then his lips Till he sat there just gnashin’ his teeth ‘Cause nothin’ was nothin’ was Nothin’ was nothin’ was Nothin’ was left to eat.
It does somewhat feel like all the levers of power are in the hands of people who have little to no reliance on the consumer market anymore. Your money is no good here.
They can all enjoy the perfect financial circlejerk with most of the world’s money whilst the rest of us scratch at the window.
scratch at the window
I have read this thing 2 times today and I can’t find a meaning for this.
What does this idiom mean?
The silver lining in all this is that when this bubble explodes we’ll probably have a glut in the supply of HDDs and SSDs, driving prices down.
Just hold any plans to upgrade your hardware for a year or two and you’ll end up better of (for many it will even be a good exercise to wean oneself out of the Consumer Society’s mindless “instant gratification” impulses).
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