According to Duann, PC makers have to buy from SSD module makers because NAND vendors reduced allocation to the client/consumer PC market and redirected most NAND supply to data center products.
As a result, PC OEMs like Acer, Asus, Dell, and HP cannot get enough NAND or SSD supply directly from NAND manufacturers and have to turn to module makers for solid-state drives. The latter traditionally served end-users and had plenty of aftermarket products with enhanced performance and cooling, but now they increasingly serve PC makers instead.
It hasn’t ‘dissapeared’, the demand is still there but we’ve been priced out.
One good thing about it is we’re more inclined to recycle and buy secondhand. Or just make-do if its not essential.
Not even a good thing globally because we’re not replacing production by recycling and secondhand buying. Production is going stronger and more wasteful than ever, it’s just all absorbed in the AI war.
I’m buying open box and refurb. Not paying these ridiculous prices
I’ve replaced a decent sized SSD with gigabit internet. Don’t need to store a bunch of huge games locally if it only takes 10 minutes to download them.
:edit: this was clearly a joke. Mostly*. Sorry for forgetting the /s _ *that is pretty much where I’m at these days, since all I have is a 250gb SSD and can’t afford a bigger one.
Can’t buy an HDD, Can’t buy an SSD, can’t buy a Blu-ray drive, can’t get head. Can’t have shit.
Here, you should at least have shit
If I needed to shit that bad I’d just eat a whole bag of sugar free oreo’s.
Welcome to Detroit.
Everyday I realize that I don’t hate capitalism enough.
Yeah, that’s what happens when you triple the price of everything.
2TB drives were about £100 a few years ago and now they’re close to £400. That’s a fuckin’ no from me dog.
Yep. I bought a 2TB for my laptop right before prices started rising.
Hoping everything I have lasts for a few years now.
My PC from 2019/2021 ist now still worth more than it was when I first bought it. Why the heck would I upgrade to someting worse for the same price? Or to something as good for a worse price?
That’s what good MLC and TLC costed back in the Win7 EOL days…
Today they are more likely QLC or TLC without dram.I’ve had good luck in the used market on ebay. Got a 2TB laptop HDD (WD Blue) for $40 and it’s working just fine for media storage.
Can’t wait for the LLM bubble to pop and have RAM and SSDs become dirt cheap for at least a short time. I believe that other AI-related applications (machine learning, visual recognition, OCR etc. for robots/drones) are more practical and have good use cases but LLM companies themselves are certainly overvalued.
The worst thing is, the format needed for data centres isn’t compatible with home use. A lot of the ram and SSDs will just be scrapped.
Yeah also when has capitalism ever allowed the poors to benefit from the failures of the rich? Companies have been destroying inventory and throwing out food, in such abundance it makes me sick, for decades. Of course this isn’t a blanket statement, after the dot com pop you could buy multi thousand dollar office chairs for a few hundred, as well as good desks.
But overall, corporations love destroying shit instead of letting the commoners get even a little morsel of it.
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maybe we’ll have powerful (and loud) home servers in the future?
The problem is they end up built into specialised boards with ridiculous requirements, but no good for most tasks.
A few people might get one working, but I can’t afford the power bill to keep one running full tilt 24/7
Think about it like trying to use mining vehicles as a car.
most likely not because of data protection, hdds and ssds would likely need to be scrapped not just “securely deleted”.
this is corporate not ebay
I built my new PC in December 2024 because I knew Trump would fuck things up with tariffs, grifting, and general shitbaggery. So while all that did happen, I didn’t anticipate the AI hype being an even bigger issue. If anything, I just wish I had bought more ram. I had planned on getting more later.
I priced out my build last week for “fun” to see how much it would be now. I paid $1,200 or so, now it would be around $2,150. I would have just not bothered at that price.
I wish I had the foresight you did and built my PC beforehand. I didn’t drown myself in politics until after Trump won though
Eh, it happens. This was just one of the rare times I believed that I saw it coming.
I want to go back to November
Thanks, AI.
Future seems to be probably similar to concept as chromeos
You get 32gb internal storage and rest is cloud storage.
AI is going to kill the enthusiast PC hardware community even more than it was before. Great. Love it. Super fantastic. 😑
My dumpster dive SELF-built NAS is getting up there. It really needs replacement but I’m waiting. I have three dying drives and a worn ssd in it right now, going to have to bite the bullet and overpay for some refurbished enterprise drives, and a small nvme ssd (2x 4TB and a. 10TB parity drive to be replaced with 2 10TB refurbs). Would have cost about 200 bucks previously (used to pay about 80 bucks for one) but today it’s totaling over 600.
I’ll limp it along for a couple more years anyway but damn, this will cost nearly as much as all the drives I’ve previously purchased.
I dont agree with all the points but Collapse OS has a fascinating read: https://collapseos.org/civ.html
In this case its driven by greed…but if you cant get a hold of chips because of ANY factor, its going to look more and more like collapse os is more right than wrong.
I got my latest pc from the local uni’s surplus sale. 32g with an i7 for 150$
Very glad I got 4TB before the graph went vertical.
You sure about that, bud? Because I’d hazard a guess that it’s almost exactly the same as before, were there options. In fact, I’m moving components around and would love to do a spend on some memory. I need low-profile sticks but if necessary I’ll just de-shield my current RAM. What a shame.
