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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: 0.204s | source
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karlkloss ◴[12 Nov 25 07:05 UTC] No.45897158[source]▶
And when the AI bubble bursts, "refurbished" HDDs and GPUs will flood the market. Save your money now and be prepared.
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1. mschuster91 ◴[12 Nov 25 20:21 UTC] No.45905947[source]▶
> And when the AI bubble bursts, "refurbished" HDDs and GPUs will flood the market.

GPUs? No way. The datacenter cards don't even have video output ports, and I think the chips destined for AI / ML training also have everything video/render related removed from the silicon, makes for more yield.

And the other way around, using (cheap) consumer GPUs in servers, I think at least NVDA tries to prevent that with driver-based DRM, so there won't be any flooding coming from there either.