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

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136 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 05:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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whynotmaybe ◴[12 Nov 25 19:50 UTC] No.45905404[source]▶
Hunger sharpens ingenuity.

Soon we'll see many "AI" product that analyses network storage to identify files that could be deleted because they're the nth copy of some random report that was never published.

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1. walterbell ◴[12 Nov 25 20:04 UTC] No.45905652[source]▶
Cloud storage and on-prem storage vendors have long provided deterministic block-level dedupe via hashing, without expensive LLM content analysis.