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

And when the AI bubble bursts, "refurbished" HDDs and GPUs will flood the market. Save your money now and be prepared.

GPUs yes, but there'll be no HDDs making it alive, they'll get destroyed to protect whatever rubbish they had on.

HDD can be written multiple times with random data if data centers really have to protect what their former customers wrote on them. I never looked at those details in standard contracts.

There is also encryption at rest.

> HDD can be written multiple times with random data

Which costs more in compute than simply throwing the drive in a shredder