Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

[nopatience@swecyb.com]

@campuscodi ffs...

... this circle jerk of a circus in acquiring real hardware with make believe money is... quite the circus.

Would be nice if we can restore this timeline to a previously recorded snapshot, no?

[apth@infosec.exchange]

@nopatience @campuscodi blkdiscard and reinstall imo

[flup@mastodon.scot]

@campuscodi I’m also worried for WD’s share price when half those companies cease to exist before the orders ever ship.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@nopatience @campuscodi They deleted those files.

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi I feel like this snaps the trap shut on consumers. You'll get your storage from an AI vendor in the cloud or you won't get it at all. And because you can't afford your own backup media, you'll pay what they ask and compromise however they want.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@campuscodi earnings call: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WDC.BE/earnings/WDC.BE-Q2-2026-earnings_call-406162.html

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@campuscodi

Be interesting if, having locked up the market, AI companies start arbitraging SSDs.

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@campuscodi dude how much of that is like just for swap

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi If they buy up all the hard drive space then you don't have any opportunity to build your own shit and store stuff they don't want stored.

Should maybe be looking at optical next. Might be finding out that for whatever reason AI needs all those 1000 year storage disks too and all the stuff used to make them.

[depereo@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi I think they saw the grifting on RAM prices and wanted in. Doubt they actually scored 'huge AI contracts' for their HDD inventory. But who'll prosecute? And in the meantime, every HDD vendor will jump on the chance to up prices.

[fruitcakesareyum@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi

Just SSD? Because I've been trying to get a couple of HDDs for my home NAS and the prices keep jumping all over the place.

I wish I had gotten the idea last year, but at least last year I swapped all my hardware before the RAM crisis.

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@campuscodi Now I'm waiting for China to step in and fill the gap.

[tschenkel@mathstodon.xyz]

@nopatience @campuscodi

Previous snapshots have been deleted to preserve disk space.

[waddre@social.vivaldi.net]

@campuscodi i cant wait for raiding the data centers instead of raiding area 51

[orca@nya.one]

@campuscodi@mastodon.social HDD

[monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org]

@campuscodi

Good job Western Digital drives are shit. I hope data centres have 100% drive failures.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@campuscodi FUCK

[monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org]

@gooba42

I'll get my storage from my stationers before I give money to these AI shysters.

@campuscodi

[monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org]

@KatS

The more I hear about US tech bros, the more I want to move away from US solutions.

@campuscodi

[kwayk42@sechtor.social]

@campuscodi I will not be surprised if we find out later that this was all collusion to artificially inflate prices