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

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177 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 05:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mchannon ◴[12 Nov 25 09:36 UTC] No.45898175[source]▶
During 1998-2000, AOL was ordering so many free trial CDs that it locked up world production, and music CDs faced 8-12 week delays. It was rumored that certain weeks there were no albums getting fabricated at all, worldwide.

I wonder if history isn’t repeating itself. AOL CDs had pretty much jumped the shark by 2000.

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1. PeaceTed ◴[12 Nov 25 22:52 UTC] No.45908029[source]▶
All that manufacturing demand led to enough free machinery to get those free Ubunutu CD's! ;)