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Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up (www.techspot.com)
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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.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

At this moment I am seriously considering if we mayhaps need a tool that automatically queries the AI tools with random garbage just to eat up their budget.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That counts as usage, they'll use it to convince investors.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 9 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, that's kinda like trying to DDoS a Cloudflare protected server in hopes that they would drop Cloudflare.