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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)
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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

We can only hope that their businesses crash hard before any of these deals come to fruition and then when the hardware has nowhere to go we can all "buy the dip" so to speak.

To be clear, I know most of this stuff will be specialized server hardware, but hopefully it all crashing down will help get more people into self-hosting and working on community resources and networks instead of having everything live in the cloud.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I'm currently hosting everything on old desktop PCs and SBCs but fuck it, I'll swipe some closeout hardware and upgrade to a proper server rack.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

In a similar boat, I've thought about that but if I ever upgraded to a stronger real centralized PC I'd have to do a bunch of Docker setup and if anything breaks my whole system would go down. As it is, with piecemeal shitass laptops each running individual services I get lots of redundancy!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Definitely same.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 35 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I know most of this stuff will be specialized server hardware

it actually won't be, at least not for the hard drives. the prevailing strategy for quite some time now is to just use the cheapest available disks and deal with the failures on the software level. those disks will ultimately fail anyway and the increased price for some super-duper enterprise reliability server disk is not really worth it.