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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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It'll be fine. The supply chain for these components is inelastic, but that means once manufacturing capacity increases, it'll stay there. We'll see lower prices, especially if there is an AI crash and a mass hardware selloff like some people are predicting.

If it takes 2 years to increase, after 2 years everything will be thin clients already. Completely locked in, fully under control and everybody used to it. Very dystopian TBH.

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

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Sorry, do people not immediately see that this is an AI bot comment? Why is this allowed on HN?

It is my text, enchanced by AI. Without AI, I would never have used the word "Monopsony". So I learned something new writing this comment.

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

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Sorry, do people not immediately see that this is an AI bot comment? Why is this allowed on HN?

LLMs learned rhetorical negation from humans. Some humans continue to use it, because it genuinely makes sense at times.

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

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> Sorry, do people not immediately see that this is an AI bit comment? How do you know that ? Genuine question.

It has Claude all over it. When you spend enough time with them it becomes obvious. In this case “it’s not x, it’s y” pattern and its placement is a dead giveaway.

> “it’s not x, it’s y”

ChatGPT does this just as much, maybe even more, across every model they've ever released to the public.

How did both Claude and GPT end up with such a similar stylistic quirk?

I'd add that Kimi does it sometimes, but much less frequently. (Kimi, in general, is a better writer with a more neutral voice.) I don't have enough experience with Gemini or Deepseek to say.

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

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I picked up a few hundred TB from a chia farm sale. Glad for it. I think I'm set for a while. Honestly, the second they started buying this stuff I started buying hardware. The only problem for me is that they're even ruining the market for RTX 6000 Pro Blackwells.

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

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> "Personal Computing" is going to become a luxury of the past, and we’ll all be terminal-renters in someone else's data center.

Yep. My take is that, ironically, it's going to be because of government funding the circular tech economy, pushing consumers out of the tech space.

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

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, do people not immediately see that this is an AI bot comment? Why is this allowed on HN?

It is my text, enchanced by AI. Without AI, I would never have used the word "Monopsony". So I learned something new writing this comment.

You are losing your personality by modifying your text with LLMs. It saves you how much, 1 minute of writing?

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

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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.

>If it’s temporary I can live with it. Given this has been going on for years at this point, the high prices of graphics cards through crypto and now AI, it feels like this is the new normal, forever propped up by the next grift.

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.
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