Stock up on storage now before prices rise even more.
I’m worried the AI boom is a front to get the public used to not being able to buy computer hardware. I think they have wanted our relationship with our desktop or laptop to become more like our relationship with our phones for a long time and this kind of thing can really push people to accepting it. I hate the world we are in right now. :(
The prices are already inflated. I’m not stocking up on storage.
I’ll just have to make do until the prices come back down to Earth.
Or we can just wait for the entire AI market to collapse sometime this year and then buy 2 TB SSDs for 20 dollars.
It might take a while. And one might end up in a situation where there will be other things to worry about if the collapse of the AI bubble wrecks the economy.
Glad I got my 2TB WD black while I did
If we legislate away AI, or it goes bankrupt, all those contracts are voided and used market gets flooded.
It would be the largest move to make high end computing widely available to the masses, along with multiple other huge gains.
We just have to put the brakes on AI.
used market gets flooded.
…with highly specialized datacenter grade hardware. They aren’t buying gaming GPUs or consumer grade SSD or RAM, they are just hogging all the manufacturing capacity for their own specific hardware needs.
Having racks of 72 enterprise AI GPUs with zero video out ports and 10TB of LPDDR5X memory flooding the market isn’t going to be very useful unless your plan is to start a datacenter yourself.
I mean, it would be really neat to own one, the 120kW power draw is just kind of a buzzkill for residential use.I mean, you kind of just gave your own solution…
The sheer volume of them and that they’re not “normal” means it wouldn’t be plug and play, but a chip is a chip to a large extent.
AI gpus can be cracked up and repurposed.
Ram can be done similarly.
An abundance of high performance chips with no plug and play use will still have a use found for them.
Like, if it was just a bunch of 9727’s or whatever high priced gamer gpus are called these days, people would just buy them for video games.
Nerds will buy this shit for pennies on the dollar, and if one figures out a novel use, the idea spreads quickly. And again, they don’t have to do it with the whole product, they can just rip out components.
That’s much more valuable to society than cheap gaming
Unless Nvidia gets in on remanufacturing, those GPUs are never going to repurposed for residential usefulness. B300 was designed from the onset for datacenter ai use exclusively, with no concessions for theoretical video out integrated to a board that overall demands over 15 kw. You couldn’t even power it with a 60A 220V circuit.
Some of the storage could get more consumer support, SAS is unusual but if there were a glut then various solutions could emerge. Similarly EDSFF cages aren’t really a hot consumer item, especially not e1.l, but I could imagine a glut driving home friendly adaptions.
DRAM modules are somewhere in between, though practically speaking they won’t be workable outside of their initial application.
There was a time when home and datacenter got closer together, but there’s been quite the divergence the last few years.
Motherfuck…prices on Amazon for a 1TB are already over $120. I remember these being ~$60-$80.
I just got a 2TB M.2 last year in May 2025 for $130.
