Everyone IS so there’s a run on those also.

that's okay they will replace users with AI. it's going to be AI all the way down

They've gone so far as to claim responsibility.

You mean brag about it?

I’ve two countem two 500gb HDD by WD, starting price is 2500$. And I’ll throw in external cases for 100$ (the cables are blue meaning usb 3.0 a which are 250$)

shit dude I'll move my storage to S3 and retire on what I can get from my 16tb array and 20tb backup.

Hardware will be available, silly. ^†^

You will have the "freedom" ^‡^ to choose from the hardware vendor* you want. Like always! ^‡‡^

^†^ ^For^ ^$49.95^ ^per^ ^month.^

^Terms and conditions and government social score apply.^

^‡‡^ ^Authorized and approved by the department of national security and intelligence gathering agencies and the billionaire technofascist bros clubh^

Skynet or Sauron.

This goddamn timeline.

It's extremely unhealthy for a free society, to have too much power imbalance between the ruling classes and the people.

Go Toshiba. If American companies got us into this mess in the first place, fuck American companies!

I brought my 2003 laptop back to life for shits and giggles recently. It's made me realize how bloated software has become. It's still just as usable as it was 20 years ago when you remove all the fancy crap and use programs designed for tasks rather than living in a web browser. Sure its not fast, but once I replaced the spinning drive with an ssd, it became pretty damn usable in a modern day scenario. I really thought I would just upgrade as far as I could for fun, then slap an old archived distro on there from my college days for some good old PTSD/nostalgia. But it's actually usable so I occasionally pull it out and do stuff on it. I'm ready to slap jaunty jackalope on it and relive going to my uni's library to write a 10 page research paper thats due the next day, but it's still ready to rock in modern times.

I bought a 22tb hdd from serverpartdeals in late December of 2025. Its now $100 more expensive, I'm glad I read the tea leaves in time but this sucks.

no wonder they need so much power/rare earths. ssds next

I will if I can, as it stands I have four 8TB seagate drives, enough for my actual storage need, but I want to have two parity drives for extra protection.

I am planning on running ZFS with Zraid2, the drives are the final piece of the puzzle to at least get it working.

When I planned the build, I planned to get another controller card and run two SSDs as well, one for cache (I can add that later), and one for VM/App storage, I also planned on getting an Intel GPU for transcoding video, and a 10Gig NIC, mainly just to say I have it, as my network isn't more than normal gigabit.

It is getting more important to complete the build as I need to move my media from single, non raided hard drives in my computer to a well raided server that I can configure for bitrot protection.

I think it has to be considered by degree of consumer-fucking. Some companies, like Micron, are outright discontinuing their consumer brands while others are 'just' deprioritizing consumers to chase the AI bandwagon.

It's those companies' prerogative to chase profits, but I'll never buy another Micron product again if they ever decide to come crawling back.

The worst part is that we don't something, and by saying something, I mean boycott them.

Boycott is under way. In my bubble, people are ditching American goods and services left and right, including Windows. The combination of "Murica first" (fascist edition) and big tech overreach has prompted people to make good use of their middle fingers.

That's a much more sophisticated setup than mine! It may even be overkill (depending on what it is you want to host, and to how many).

I've been running two enterprise-grade Toshiba 16TB drives in a btrfs RAID1 since last summer. No SSD for caching (though the OS and my Docker containers run on one, with regular syncs to the slower spinning drives). No complaints so far.

I got a 16TB HDD for 300€, yesterday I looked at it and it was 800€ (apparently discounted from 1000€ lol)

SSDs were first, actually, with HDDs now following suit.

Same. Scored two 16TB drives and a 4GB in summer of 2025 (by pure chance though). They're now 150%-200% the original price. Cannot wait to see this bubble pop.

Theres a reason we have 256TB SSDs. Consumers dont really need them and they are of limited value vor conventional Datacentres.

I know it is a bit complex, but after seeing the shenanigans Synology tried to play and reading review about Ugreen NAS units and how they seem to connect to external servers often, I just decided to roll my own TrueNAS build.

I am using an AMD Ryzen 4600G, 32GB of RAM, a 500GB boot SSD, the only mATX board I could find with six SATA ports, the Asus B550m Pro4 and a Corsair SF750 750W PSU to power it all.

Props for the powerful DIY! You're right about the pre-built models. I'm coming from a QNAP one, and while they're good for learning the ropes, they'll become pretty limited after a while. That, and the shit they're trying to pull with proprietary HDDs.

A self-made rig gives you a lot more flexibility, although it requires you to learn a bit more. But seeing that you're already getting comfortable with GFS, I guess you'll manage just fine!

Welp, I guess I'm all out of money for new tech. Time to travel or find a new hobby.

To be perfectly honest, I don't know what GFS is, I have been a Linux sysadmin for a few years, but never came across that.

We used LVM and ext4 for the storage in those VMs

If you've got that experience under your belt, you'll be just fine. I haven't tackled zfs myself yet (I'm lacking the RAM, plus I was put off by the ECC RAM recommendation). But I know it unifies a lot of the things you're already familiar with under one roof (volume management and journaling) and adds more cool features (snapshotting, RAID, encryption, bitrot protection) without you having to combine and manage several different technologies (mdadm for RAID, LVM, LUKS, ...). I did that on my main rig and it turned out to be rather complex. Hence the switch to btrfs to at least squash a bit of complexity.

If you'd rather continue working with the storage technologies you know and avoid zfs, you may want to look into other OSs than TrueNAS (because that is zfs only). Two I'm running and can recommend are

• Open Media Vault: great for beginners (friendly, though dated-looking web UI), but Debian-based underneath and hence reasonably flexible if you know your way around the CLI, which you probably will. Case in point: mine is no longer just used as a NAS, but runs somewhere between 10-20 Docker containers, and I rarely touch the webUI these days.
• Proxmox: You mentioned VMs, so you're probably familiar with this one. I like its flexibility, allowing me to run each VM tailored to its purpose: a NAS VM for network shares, a hardened, minimal VM for publicly available services and Wireguard access into the network, an LXC as a local DNS server...

I was trying to use the same language the news uses when a political group claims resposibilty for a bombing.

I'm glad I bought an 8 TB HDD about a year ago as an investment, it's now $50 more expensive a year later. I don't plan on ever filling it up, but it's been helpful, and good insurance to have if I ever create a project that requires that space.

On the upside, homelabs are going to have a glut of high capacity, barely used server hard drives to choose from then this AI/data centre bubble eventually bursts?

If it bursts, that is. I have a fear that people behind AI have grown so savvy of the bubbles, that they have a complicated plan to avoid it, and artificially uphold it with the help of bribed/blackmailed politicians.

I'm guessing you got similar drives to the ones I got. I paid ~$72 each (4x 12TB), and now the same HGST DC drives from the same seller are $220. Just glad I got them when I did, even though now I have to continually prune the data so it all fits within this forever limit.

I was able to update 2 of 3 devices early last year, but couldn’t upgrade my old custom build. I did that due to possible tariffs; didn’t even think about this “AI” BS. Thought may as well just buy a custom build now. Wanted to wait another year, but I won’t be upset no matter what happens with prices if I get it now. I’m not sure my old girl can outlive the return of easily available PC parts. At least I also bought some extra storage over a year ago.

These sound like great ideas. Additionally, I find that making the most of the hardware I already have can be really satisfying, too.

This feels like you're about to try and sell me on linux.

As every industry before them did.

Pretty much. So much trading is done automatically by algorithms. There's no panic selling anymore because the human factor is gone.

Of course something will have to break eventually.

Apparently there is a huge demand for storage, both RAM and disk. Oh, and GPUs... So what happens when large number of people are looking to buy stuff? In time, I think there is a silver lining here...

It does sound like that, doesn’t it. I’ve been down that rabbit hole, but currently my only Linux device is a steam deck. Apple stuff for most things, pc for AAA gaming.

So, no. I like Linux, but I really meant that I increasingly manage to find some satisfaction in getting „my money‘s worth“ out of my hardware instead of finding excuses to buy new stuff.

Blamed?
More like responsible. Alongside big tech

Demand went up but supply hasn't adjusted, and maybe won't, to meet it. I'd imagine the parts manufacturers would be worried about the bubble bursting as much as we are cheering it on.

The the demand stays elastic and the supply doesn't then you can just scale the pricing as much as you want. Saying you're sold out for the year is literally telling everyone in advance the prices will continue to be manipulated .

I don't mean existing manufacturers necessarily. Unfortunately there are no certainties, but I'd say give it some time. These chips are (or at the very least becoming) strategic commodities, so the greater the squeeze the more appealing the business case will be. Besides, both the US and EU want to grow their chip manufacturing capacity and it's not like there is no investment money available. So at some point production capacity will grow.

This is how they kill home computing and force everyone to bezos net with your drumpf Gold terminal ($390/month with KKK membership)

Fuck ALL these peoole.

those who promote ai usage and even pay for it ought to be blamed too.

While I can see some benefits in using llm for some things, way things currently are the negatives way outweigh the positives. Using it should be something to be ashamed about so this shit collapses sooner and maybe we can get some peace. Maybe once all the commotion dies down llm could become useful tool, but if its tied to destruction of our way of life (planet dying, economic disruption, no components for regular people) then it just has to go.

Alternative is we just submit and hope our owners dont abuse us too much.

This framing is journalistic malpractice. Using the term blamed implies room for doubt where there is none, it's a clear and provable driver of this issue. We desperately need public funding for journalism, as long as outlets rely on private investment to function there will always be this kind of manipulation and bias infused into news media.

Don't discount China in this race either. Gamers nexus did an interesting video about china's push to become a contender in the DIMM market too.

Guess it's all speculation for now anyway.

28 TB is now sold out in serverpartsdeals, guess we have to wait till the bubbles pops.

Funny thing, we had that back before the 80's. Yeah Republicans killed it. and now we're in the shit show you see all around.

Huh, I wonder why they would do that... So Weird (tm). Surely unrelated to the tRump republicans axeing PBS funding in this current term...