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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)
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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

no wonder they need so much power/rare earths. ssds next

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

SSDs were first, actually, with HDDs now following suit.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Theres a reason we have 256TB SSDs. Consumers dont really need them and they are of limited value vor conventional Datacentres.