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2026-06-03 18:39 UTC
@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @mathowie@xoxo.zone I think it's more that Ai's effect on SSD prices means more storage customers are choosing spinning rust over solid state, giving a secondary demand surge and associated price increases.
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-06-03 18:43
@hatter@metasocial.com @mathowie@xoxo.zone I think this example above might actually prove the opposite. Most people aren't replacing their (probably 4TB at the most — many likely 2) SSD purchases with 24TB HDDs. The price differential shows that it's specifically the massive storage needs that shot up and it's smaller storage needs getting affected indirectly. Otherwise the price relationship would be more linear. That pretty much spells data centers. (Which isn't even all so called """AI""" though that does cover the majority I'm sure. A whole lot of enshittification requires bigger and bigger data centers.)