AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.
    • MadBigote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Wdym? Do you believe the manufacturers would try to congincr you they’re out of stock to create scarcity and increace prices?!? Do you jnow how silly that idea is?! \s

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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        28 days ago

        It is not this case, I agree, but to be honest it would not be the first time that some company create an artificial scarcity to keep the prices up.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Wait til all these projects crash, burn, and get liquidated. Gonna be an amazing secondary market for brand new, unused bulk hardware.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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        28 days ago

        I think people don’t realise that if AI fails, it’s pretty much guaranteed to collapse the US economy.

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Yes, of course

      Except, i doubt anyone will be doing much with a 32 code Xenon CPU Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

      And the cuda only fanless and outputless GPU will also be kinda useless, especially because they all need a special setup to force feed air through the entire rack to not overheat

      • InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

        I’m not using Windows servers at home but if I did then a license wouldn’t be a factor when deciding what hardware to buy.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          28 days ago

          And on top: ROK ISOs by hardware vendors by HPE (and probably lenovo) don’t have the trial time limit and can be run indefinitely without a license.
          You only need to satisfy the requirement of running a supported motherboard during boot of the iso.
          Well…Too bad that I can (unlike in ESXi) modify the manufacturer string in proxmox to say whatever I want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              28 days ago

              At work we sell servers by HPE.
              We create Install-ISOs from the included install ISO.

              At boot the Installer checks if the system is manufactured by the vendor.
              If it is: It continues boot and offers you the installer options
              If it is not: It will fail with a message that the manufacturer doesnt match.

              On ESXi you need to pass the argument smbios.reflectHost = true (or something along those lines)

              Dunno how HPE customized the install.wim
              But you can probably get those for cheap on ebay and maybe compare the wims for differences.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Same as everyone else? Because it’s a more cost-effective way of storing data?

        • jim3692@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          28 days ago

          No. AI workloads benefit from SSD’s high random read/write performance. Also, I guess, more people starting using SSDs for paging/swap, as RAM prices skyrocketed.

          This resulted in an SSD shortage immediately after RAM starting getting expensive. Which in turn caused an HDD shortage, because people need space to store their data.