Hard drives, often treated as a legacy technology, are once again being pulled into the spotlight.

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    17 hours ago

    Why slow rotating physical storage ? It not like the AI models generate anything worth retaining in the long term. I assume they are in just running out of ssds so will buy any old drive

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      12 hours ago

      Might also be non-AI consumers reassessing their storage needs. If SSD’s are expensive and you don’t necessarily NEED the faster speed, you’ll hop to the cheaper choice.

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    23 hours ago

    If memory & hardware keep skyrocketing, no one will be able to buy a modern computer or phone. And AI will delete itself since no one will have the hardware to even access it.