WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
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#2Future show HN: how I managed to parallelize 100 tape drives to load windows and play video games
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#3/dev/null as a service, mooning
Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
#4Future show HN: how I managed to parallelize 100 tape drives to load windows and play video games
VHS cassettes: maybe not so obsolete, after all?
Also, the Return of PKZIP.
Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
#5But hey, we get slop videos of the pope doing something funny, that's just as cool as being able to purchase computer hardware, right?
Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
#6Damn. First GPUs, then RAM, now hard drives?
What's next, the great CPU shortage of 2026?
Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
#7But hey, we get slop videos of the pope doing something funny, that's just as cool as being able to purchase computer hardware, right?
To be fair, heise is a german news site, and the very article is auto-translated by AI from its german counterpart.
Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
#8Everyone: 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.
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#9Re: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
#10Damn. First GPUs, then RAM, now hard drives? What's next, the great CPU shortage of 2026?