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Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up (www.techspot.com)
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According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Are now? Haven't they been using flash first?

Hard drives suck for that work load. Their seek times are huge, their throughput is awful, and they're worse storage density than HDDs. You can fit 24 2.5" ssds into a 2u server. 16TB in a 2.5" > 24TB in 3.5" SSDs were first to skyrocket in price vs HDDs.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No. AI companies have huge storage requirements for training data. Flash storage is not cost efficient for mass storage quantities.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Something tells me you’ve never worked for a massive company.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

These aren't massive companies. They're startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Bruh, you’re the one who called them massive companies

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 6 hours ago

A"I" companies want to store petabytes of "good" training data