Tag: storage
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Three Years Without Buying a Drive
A year ago, running out of disk space was a shopping problem. You waited for a sale, bought a bigger drive, and moved on.
That’s over for now. AI data centres are buying up the world’s memory and flash, and it’s spread to hard drives too. RAM, SSDs and hard drives all cost two to five times what they did twelve months ago, depending on the part. I already skipped buying a second offsite drive in my backup post because a 16 TB disk had become absurd.