Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent damn near all "spinning rust" drives at my local tech shop are out of stock. (there's a few 24 TB NAS drives, but even those are showing single-digit quantities)
Definitely concerning.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent shit, didn't realise the slow storage was also in danger. Just checked my local marketplace and 16tb hdds are 25% (more than 100€) up compared to October 2025 🥲
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@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
@deFractal @thedarktangent @pluralistic Wasn't that what Google tried to do with the Chromebooks?
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