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Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 62 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Are all these companies going to go bankrupt when the AI bubble pops and their products flood the market?

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 40 points 5 hours ago

They'd only go bankrupt if they were spending the capital to increase capacity and were left holding the bag. And nobody's interested in doing that.

[–] Stiggyman@ani.social 17 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Issue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA.

Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)

[–] errer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Oddly enough ECC used to be quite common for consumer hardware…I had an old Mac desktop in the late 90s/early 00s with ECC memory. But at some point it was decided that consumers don’t want to pay the extra $ for error-free RAM and mobos largely dropped support.

Edit: reading up on it the G5 (which I had) required ECC memory

[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 17 points 4 hours ago

I guess I’ll have to buy one of those racks when the bubble pops. Just add an LED strip on the outside and a gaming GPU on the inside. Surely they support PCIe?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So that's why consumer drives and ram are not affected by the price rise! /s

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 1 points 48 minutes ago

They're saying that even when it bursts and there's all these components laying around, they'll still be useless for consumers.