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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 iso1631 »

iso1631 wrote: post #96
stingraycharles wrote: post #17

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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.

> I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid. Just like the price of labour. Your salary went up and doesn't come down In the UK weekly earnings increased 34% from December 2019 to December 2025. CPI went up 30% in the same period. Obviously that CPI covers things which went up more, and things which went up less, and your personal inflation wi…

Amazing how many people on the internet refuse to accept basic facts

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Post by brador »

prewett wrote: post #157
phatfish wrote: post #71

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It just goes to show how totally corporations have captured western aligned governments. Our governments are powerless to do anything (aside from some baby steps from the EU). China is now the only solution to fix broken western controlled markets.

Cynicism in unhelpful, and it's not correct. This has nothing to do with governments and everything to do with market economics. This sort of thing happens every few years in computing.

The only legal check for monopoly corporations is regulation/taxation. That doesn’t work cross border. Especially when the other side has nationalised and artificially props the monopoly.

The solution then is removing the product from market till local competition takes its place.

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Post by NexRebular »

b3lvedere wrote: post #133
roysting wrote: post #83

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You’re going to find what, ways to make hand crafted survival RAM and drives in your backyard chip foundry? Call me cynical if you like, but I don’t see this optimism that assumes the banal idea that somehow good always wins, when that’s simply not possible and in fact bad-guys have won many times before, it’s just that “dead men tell no tales” and the winners control what you think is reality.

I come from a time when people had to use 1 to a maximum of 48 kilobytes for their entire computer. Later on i once went to Helsinki to watch with my own eyes what people can program in a restriction of 4 to 64 kilobytes. Computers have amazed me, but people who used them, have amazed me a lot of more times. I wasn't saying it'll be good and that the good guys win, but a lot of insane creativity to circumvent restric…

> Later on i once went to Helsinki to watch with my own eyes what people can program in a restriction of 4 to 64 kilobytes.

The Demoscene will save us all

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

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Post by munksbeer »

brador wrote: post #172
malfist wrote: post #152

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It takes a profound lack of empathy to refer to your neighbors as "useless living humans"

It is meant in the capitalist sense. Your horror at the statement is the point.

Capitalism relies on consumers. It's pretty much central to the idea. That's why the world on average (median) has gotten wealthier and better off over the decades.

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

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Post by brador »

munksbeer wrote: post #195
brador wrote: post #172

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It is meant in the capitalist sense. Your horror at the statement is the point.

Capitalism relies on consumers. It's pretty much central to the idea. That's why the world on average (median) has gotten wealthier and better off over the decades.

Capitalism relies on the circulation of capital. Consumers are an anomaly.

Citation: nvidia/openai circular loans network.

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Post by squeefers »

63stack wrote: post #145
squeefers wrote: post #125

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"they"? i see companies jacking their prices up, plain and simple. and us idiots still pay. ask yourself does intel no longer wish to sell CPUs to consumers? doesnt sound reasonable that intel would want to decimate their main market so AI companies can rule the world for some reason

Why doesn't that sound reasonable, when nvidia did exactly that?

because nvidia owns half of its own suppliers AND customers. intel completely missed out on the AI gravy train

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

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Post by squeefers »

63stack wrote: post #145
squeefers wrote: post #125

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"they"? i see companies jacking their prices up, plain and simple. and us idiots still pay. ask yourself does intel no longer wish to sell CPUs to consumers? doesnt sound reasonable that intel would want to decimate their main market so AI companies can rule the world for some reason

Why doesn't that sound reasonable, when nvidia did exactly that?

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

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Post by pseudohadamard »

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.

>so developers will have to ditch memory-sucking frameworks and start to optimize things again.

Can you DM me your contact details? I have a nice shiny new bridge that I can get you a great deal on.

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