Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

> delivery times for enterprise-grade HDDs delayed by two years.

I sleep

> so hyperscalers are now switching to QLC NAND-based SSDs to avoid these backorders … This could lead to SSD prices rising worldwide

Real shit

The funniest thing about this is that, with high GPU prices, rising RAM costs, and now increasing SSD prices, Apple will end up producing the most affordable PCs.

Apple uses the same RAM, SSD, etc as everyone else does. They don't have a magic supply chain that is unaffected by the broader world.

They don't use the same SSDs? They don't use the same RAM? They have their own supply chain in place? Whatcha talking about bud?

They use the same suppliers. The problem is the base chip, and also the wafer itself, all of which will impact apple.

(apple doesn't use hdds so not talking about that here).

The problem is not chip supply it's manufacturing. Apple has their own manufacturing suppply. This is not the chip crisis of the last years. Hyper scalers are switching to consumer hardware because there is nothing in storage for Prosumer anymore and the manufacturing pipelines for these are smaller and harder to scale than consumer ones.