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Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Eh, the market will adapt.
I've been looking at components on AliExpress. Even now, there's lots of X99-based motherboards with LGA2011-3 sockets that can take both regular DDR4 (with some limitations) and ECC DDR4.
But the descriptions are quite hard to understand, and they are apparently quite picky about which RAM will work with them.
I could get a combo of one of those motherboards with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4 CPUs (2.4GHz, 3.3GHz turbo, 28 cores, 56 threads in total) (hey, a dual CPU motherboard) for €120. And it's got 8 RAM slots. So 32GB just with cheap 4GB sticks.