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WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by FrankBooth »

stingraycharles wrote: post #17
lccerina wrote: post #8

Everyone: things suck, better move my stuff on a small home server. The hyper-scaler mafia: NOT ON MY WATCH! The only silver lining is that newer devices will have to scale down memory, so developers will have to ditch memory-sucking frameworks and start to optimize things again.

I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid. If it’s temporary I can live with it. I guess this was inevitable with the absolute insane money being poured into AI.

We useless eaters are to be priced out of life soon enough.

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by kuerbel »

shit_game wrote: post #73
olavgg wrote: post #19

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This is the result of the long-planned desire for consumer computing to be subscription computing. Ultimately, there is only so much that can be done in software to "encourage" (read: coerce) vendor-locked, always-online, account-based computer usage; there are viable options for people to escape these ecosystems via the ever growing plethora of web-based productivity software and linux distributions which are genuin…

What can we do? Serious question.

It's so hard to grasp as a problem for the lay person until it's too late.

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by dgxyz »

lazide wrote: post #88
dgxyz wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this ideology and investment strategy will survive this grift. There's too much geopolitical instability and investment restructuring for it to work again. Everyone is looking at isolationist policies. I mean mastercard/visa is even seen as a risk outside US now.

Yup, when you can’t trust partners (or even nominal allies), what else is there but isolationism?

It's not really isolation but exclusion. Push all risks as far away from you as possible.

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by theandrewbailey »

lccerina wrote: post #8

Everyone: things suck, better move my stuff on a small home server. The hyper-scaler mafia: NOT ON MY WATCH! The only silver lining is that newer devices will have to scale down memory, so developers will have to ditch memory-sucking frameworks and start to optimize things again.

At least we can add "use the least amount of RAM and drive space" to our AI prompts.

/s

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by iamshs »

Repairability, upgradability and standards compliance needs to be minimum in consumer products. No to proprietary connectors. No soldered SSD or RAM. For home use, allow relaxed licensing options for discarded enterprise products like switches, Wifi Access Points etc. (Juniper Mist APs are fantastic, but are a brick without their cloud). Currently, I cannot put in a market bought SSD in my Macbook. I cannot put in a SSD in my Unifi router without buying their $20 SSD tray. I cannot put third party ECC-RAM and SSDs in my Synology NAS because the policy has only been lifted on HDDs but nothing else. I fear opposite will happen. Only leveraged companies have access to DRAM and NAND and hence will use it to lock us into their ecosystem as consumers won't even get access to storage in the open market otherwise.

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by roysting »

dgxyz wrote: post #51
lccerina wrote: post #8

Everyone: things suck, better move my stuff on a small home server. The hyper-scaler mafia: NOT ON MY WATCH! The only silver lining is that newer devices will have to scale down memory, so developers will have to ditch memory-sucking frameworks and start to optimize things again.

Saw this one coming and got my personal stuff out. It's running on an old Lenovo crate chucked in my hallway. Work is fucked. 23TB of RAM online. Microservices FTW. Not. Each node has OS overhead. Each pod has language VM overhead. And the architecture can only cost more over time. On top of that "storage is cheap so we won't bother to delete anything". Stupid mentality across the board.

It is one tiny sliver of silver lining that “storage/memory/compute is cheap” nonsense that has produced all kinds of outsourced human slop code. That mentality is clearly going to have to die.

It could even become a kind of renaissance of efficient code… if there is any need for code at all.

The five guys left online might even get efficient and fast loading websites.

Honorable mention of the NO-TECH and LOW-TECH magazine site because I liked the effort at exploring efficient use of technology, e.g., their ~500KB solar powered site.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by dgxyz »

Fervicus wrote: post #92
dgxyz wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this ideology and investment strategy will survive this grift. There's too much geopolitical instability and investment restructuring for it to work again. Everyone is looking at isolationist policies. I mean mastercard/visa is even seen as a risk outside US now.

> I don't think this ideology and investment strategy will survive this grift Big tech will be deemed "too big to fail" and will get a bail out. The tax payers will suffer.

Big tech has already failed. Which is why it got into politics.

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by zozbot234 »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #104
lccerina wrote: post #8

Everyone: things suck, better move my stuff on a small home server. The hyper-scaler mafia: NOT ON MY WATCH! The only silver lining is that newer devices will have to scale down memory, so developers will have to ditch memory-sucking frameworks and start to optimize things again.

At least we can add "use the least amount of RAM and drive space" to our AI prompts. /s

Well you can do that, but then the AI won't be nearly as smart as it was before...

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by lazide »

dgxyz wrote: post #103
lazide wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, when you can’t trust partners (or even nominal allies), what else is there but isolationism?

It's not really isolation but exclusion. Push all risks as far away from you as possible.

When everything ‘outside’ is a risk, what would you call a summary of that policy?

Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

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Post by Fervicus »

fnands wrote: post #6

Damn. First GPUs, then RAM, now hard drives? What's next, the great CPU shortage of 2026?

What's next is no custom built PCs. They want us running dumb thin clients and subscribing to compute. Or it will be like phones. We'll get pre-built PCs that we aren't allowed to repair and they'll be forced to be obsolete every few years.
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