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.
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.
I want to go back to November
Thanks, AI.
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.
Future seems to be probably similar to concept as chromeos
You get 32gb internal storage and rest is cloud storage.
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.
The most toxic relationship a person can have is a love for technology
