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A retro HDD opened up, to display the nice technology inside 💠
This drive has fulfilled its full life cycle without any incidents
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SSD death ☠️💀
I am busy rebuilding the data from an SSD which died all of a sudden from one moment to the next without giving any warnings in any manner in any way.
I always monitor SMART output of SSD drives & mechanical spinners (HDD)
I've not seen any smart output indicating imminante dead
This drive has acted like your girlfriend when she's just not in a good mood and without explanation says nothing to you in the morning, for hours.
This hard crash, means that the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring hardware didn't have proper Communications with the integrated circuits on the SSD.
The drive was always powered many times a month, never left without power for more than a week or so, thus that has not been a contributing factor to the SSD catastrophic failure
The drive itself is fairly small.
The data on this dead SSD I've backed up on remote drives connected in JBOD format to machines which I have running remotely.
No ZFS on my backup machines
- I want to run ZFS native
- that means running a BSD OS on those machines
- that also means I will need to backup / restore all data on those drives meaning
- I will need 200% of the used HDD / SSD space on those machines
- I need patience for that backup
- I need expensive extra HDD's for that project
- I won't pay USD 300 for a USD 120 HDD
NO ZFS under these global SSD / HDD market prices
Sources:
- Moi
- man ls(1)
- man lsd(1)
- man cp(1)
- man smartctl(8)
- man zfs(8)
#HDD #SSD #crash #no #warning #on #TV #filesystems #remote #backup #network #JBOD #SMART #programming #bacula
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SSD death ☠️💀
I am busy rebuilding the data from an SSD which died all of a sudden from one moment to the next without giving any warnings in any manner in any way.
I always monitor SMART output of SSD drives & mechanical spinners (HDD)
I've not seen any smart output indicating imminante dead
This drive has acted like your girlfriend when she's just not in a good mood and without explanation says nothing to you in the morning, for hours.
This hard crash, means that the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring hardware didn't have proper Communications with the integrated circuits on the SSD.
The drive was always powered many times a month, never left without power for more than a week or so, thus that has not been a contributing factor to the SSD catastrophic failure
The drive itself is fairly small.
The data on this dead SSD I've backed up on remote drives connected in JBOD format to machines which I have running remotely.
No ZFS on my backup machines
- I want to run ZFS native
- that means running a BSD OS on those machines
- that also means I will need to backup / restore all data on those drives meaning
- I will need 200% of the used HDD / SSD space on those machines
- I need patience for that backup
- I need expensive extra HDD's for that project
- I won't pay USD 300 for a USD 120 HDD
NO ZFS under these global SSD / HDD market prices
Sources:
- Moi
- man ls(1)
- man lsd(1)
- man cp(1)
- man smartctl(8)
- man zfs(8)
#HDD #SSD #crash #no #warning #on #TV #filesystems #remote #backup #network #JBOD #SMART #programming #bacula
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SSD death ☠️💀
I am busy rebuilding the data from an SSD which died all of a sudden from one moment to the next without giving any warnings in any manner in any way.
I always monitor SMART output of SSD drives & mechanical spinners (HDD)
I've not seen any smart output indicating imminante dead
This drive has acted like your girlfriend when she's just not in a good mood and without explanation says nothing to you in the morning, for hours.
This hard crash, means that the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring hardware didn't have proper Communications with the integrated circuits on the SSD.
The drive was always powered many times a month, never left without power for more than a week or so, thus that has not been a contributing factor to the SSD catastrophic failure
The drive itself is fairly small.
The data on this dead SSD I've backed up on remote drives connected in JBOD format to machines which I have running remotely.
No ZFS on my backup machines
- I want to run ZFS native
- that means running a BSD OS on those machines
- that also means I will need to backup / restore all data on those drives meaning
- I will need 200% of the used HDD / SSD space on those machines
- I need patience for that backup
- I need expensive extra HDD's for that project
- I won't pay USD 300 for a USD 120 HDD
NO ZFS under these global SSD / HDD market prices
Sources:
- Moi
- man ls(1)
- man lsd(1)
- man cp(1)
- man smartctl(8)
- man zfs(8)
#HDD #SSD #crash #no #warning #on #TV #filesystems #remote #backup #network #JBOD #SMART #programming #bacula
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SSD death ☠️💀
I am busy rebuilding the data from an SSD which died all of a sudden from one moment to the next without giving any warnings in any manner in any way.
I always monitor SMART output of SSD drives & mechanical spinners (HDD)
I've not seen any smart output indicating imminante dead
This drive has acted like your girlfriend when she's just not in a good mood and without explanation says nothing to you in the morning, for hours.
This hard crash, means that the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring hardware didn't have proper Communications with the integrated circuits on the SSD.
The drive was always powered many times a month, never left without power for more than a week or so, thus that has not been a contributing factor to the SSD catastrophic failure
The drive itself is fairly small.
The data on this dead SSD I've backed up on remote drives connected in JBOD format to machines which I have running remotely.
No ZFS on my backup machines
- I want to run ZFS native
- that means running a BSD OS on those machines
- that also means I will need to backup / restore all data on those drives meaning
- I will need 200% of the used HDD / SSD space on those machines
- I need patience for that backup
- I need expensive extra HDD's for that project
- I won't pay USD 300 for a USD 120 HDD
NO ZFS under these global SSD / HDD market prices
Sources:
- Moi
- man ls(1)
- man lsd(1)
- man cp(1)
- man smartctl(8)
- man zfs(8)
#HDD #SSD #crash #no #warning #on #TV #filesystems #remote #backup #network #JBOD #SMART #programming #bacula
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SSD death ☠️💀
I am busy rebuilding the data from an SSD which died all of a sudden from one moment to the next without giving any warnings in any manner in any way.
I always monitor SMART output of SSD drives & mechanical spinners (HDD)
I've not seen any smart output indicating imminante dead
This drive has acted like your girlfriend when she's just not in a good mood and without explanation says nothing to you in the morning, for hours.
This hard crash, means that the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring hardware didn't have proper Communications with the integrated circuits on the SSD.
The drive was always powered many times a month, never left without power for more than a week or so, thus that has not been a contributing factor to the SSD catastrophic failure
The drive itself is fairly small.
The data on this dead SSD I've backed up on remote drives connected in JBOD format to machines which I have running remotely.
No ZFS on my backup machines
- I want to run ZFS native
- that means running a BSD OS on those machines
- that also means I will need to backup / restore all data on those drives meaning
- I will need 200% of the used HDD / SSD space on those machines
- I need patience for that backup
- I need expensive extra HDD's for that project
- I won't pay USD 300 for a USD 120 HDD
NO ZFS under these global SSD / HDD market prices
Sources:
- Moi
- man ls(1)
- man lsd(1)
- man cp(1)
- man smartctl(8)
- man zfs(8)
#HDD #SSD #crash #no #warning #on #TV #filesystems #remote #backup #network #JBOD #SMART #programming #bacula
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Detailed compositions of retro 2.5" HDD
This drive uses the ancient IDE interface
HDD like this one were common in notebook computers of that era. They were a bit less sensitive to shocks in comparison with the 3.5" counterparts due to physics, less mass on the heads means it's is less prone to slam into the HDD platters
#HDD #IDE #Small #factor #RetroComputing #hardware -
External HDD (Toshiba DTB440 4 TB) teardown: The enclosure does not contain an ordinary internal drive plus an adapter: the USB connector is on the PCB of the drive itself. The drive itself is 103 mm long (including the protruding connector), 69 mm wide and 14 mm thick (quite a lot).
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Bir Kablo Yüzünden 4 TB Arşivimden Oluyordum. 4 TB'lık bir Western Digital HDD'ye.....
DEVAMI: https://techforum.tr/sosyal/posts/684/bir-kablo-yuzunden-4-tb-arsivimden-oluyordum
#HDD #SabitDisk #WD #WesternDigital #VeriKurtarma #DMDE #BozukDosyalar #PC #Bilgisayar #Windows #VeriKurtarma #Yedekleme #TeknolojiBlogu #Kılavuz
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Anyone know of any good program (win 10) that would help scan drives and find errors on them? My "server/tower" pc has a grating/airplane noise, and I'm not sure if I take the cover off that I'll be able to pinpoint which of the 3 HDD it's coming from.
I have my guesses, but would love to know. Everything is already backed up, so just would need to know which drive to replace.
Many thanks.
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Detail of a retro hard drive
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If anyone can help me, I'm looking for this bracket that comes with a Lian Li O11 Dynamic Mini PC case. I bought one secondhand and unfortunately it did not come with this bracket. I'm also missing some sort of HDD drive bay. If anyone knows where I can buy these parts (preferably 2nd hand!), please let me know. Boosting would be appreciated.
Edit: I live in the UK
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Zvládne těch 900mA roztočit 3,5" #HDD ? Je mi divný, že všude udávají pouze 2,5"
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OWC、Mac Studioや旧Mac miniと同じフットプリントで3.5インチHDDとNVMe M.2 SSDを搭載し重ねて使えるThunderbolt 5対応ドライブ「OWC StudioStack」を日本でも発売開始。
https://applech2.com/archives/20260409-owc-studiostack-now-available.html#applech2 #OWC #HDD #Mac_mini #Mac_Studio #NVMe #SSD #ドッキングステーション #発売
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OWC、Mac Studioや旧Mac miniと同じフットプリントで3.5インチHDDとNVMe M.2 SSDを搭載し重ねて使えるThunderbolt 5対応ドライブ「OWC StudioStack」を日本でも発売開始。
https://applech2.com/archives/20260409-owc-studiostack-now-available.html#applech2 #OWC #HDD #Mac_mini #Mac_Studio #NVMe #SSD #ドッキングステーション #発売
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Discos SSD e HDD disparam de preço devido à febre da inteligência artificial
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t81510-discos-ssd-e-hdd-disparam-de-preco-devido-a-febre-da-inteligencia-artificial -
#Retro #HDD #HDDSynth #retrocomputing #retrosound
Das erinnert mich an ein Mac Programm: TappyType.
Habe ich lange genutzt - hat sich wie eine alte Schreibmaschine angehört. -
Eure SSD / SD / PC ist euch zu leise? Ihr vermisst das #Retro-Feeling einer #HDD? Dann ist #HDDSynth (eine ISA Karte) genau das richtige für euch 😃! #retrocomputing #retrosound https://www.strifestreams.com/hddsynth
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This defrag tool just defragged my 200GB file with 3 fragments into 4.
WTF?!? are you shitting me? You had one job.
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Почему мы полностью отказались от HDD
В индустрии есть устоявшееся мнение, что HDD — это устаревающая технология. Это с одной стороны. С другой стороны, много у кого написано «Медленные SSD», а по факту при тестах они начинают показывать характерные скорости HDD, характерные бутылочные горлышки HDD и вообще ведут себя как жёсткие диски. У нас тоже есть тариф с HDD-хранилищем, но он довольно давно тариф с HDD-содержащим хранилищем, потому что уже пять-шесть лет (в зависимости от страны) мы закупаем SSD вместо HDD. Совсем скоро последние хрустящие диски уйдут из эксплуатации, и это будет тариф типа SSD с ограничением по скорости для совместимости с легаси-ценами. При этом мы используем HDD для долговременного хранения.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/1016990/
#ruvds_статьи #HDD #SSD #nvme #docker #kubernetes #хранение_данных #бэкапы
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I think my retro HDD noise simulator for Win10 works pretty good. Yeah I vibe coded it in Python, but this is a desktop toy and who cares. Anyway, the sounds I recorded from an actual HDD. In the tray at upper right you see two blinking "LEDs". The one on the left is my Striped Scratch volume, the one to the right of that is my HDD noise and LED simulator. #hdd #retro #retrocomputing
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@kubefred Yeah. I'm thinking about maybe (in the far future) getting a #Framework #PC (their 128gb model), but 3k is way too much for me. Then I could maybe also use this as a #backup server as well (attaching #HDD devices etc) :D
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Bought some antidepressants yesterday. Now I would not be anxious watching HDD prices skyrocket.
Also noticed the larger the drive, the slower the price hike. At least at our local retail stores.
#HDDPrices #HDD #storage #homelab -
https://www.wacoca.com/games/1344129/ 【自作PC】PCパーツ価格動向/秋葉原特価散策/NVIDIA DLSS 5炎上/IODATA製品大幅値上げ/Intel Arc紅の砂漠起動せず【ずんだリサーチ】 ##GAMING #amd #cpu #dram #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #GPU #HDD #IT技術 #NVIDIA #PC #PCパーツ #Radeon #SSD #SSD高騰 #ゲーミング #ゲーミングPC #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ずんだもん解説 #デスクトップPC #マザーボード #メモリ高騰 #自作PC
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Ton disque dur USB joue à cache-cache ? 🛑
Ras-le-bol des erreurs "Input/Output" en plein milieu d'une sauvegarde ? 😫
C’est souvent juste Linux qui veut faire des économies d’énergie un peu trop agressives !
Apprenez à garder vos disques "éveillés" et vos backups en sécurité avec ce nouveau guide step-by-step 🛠️🐧👉 C’est par ici : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/stabiliser-disques-usb-autosuspend
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@WinFuture Wo bleiben die für 2026 angekündigten 256 TB -SSDs (für 2027 dann angekündigt: 512 TB SSDs)?
Und wenn die kommen: Wer kauft dann noch 44 TB HDDs?
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Жесткие диски на 44 ТБ: как технология HAMR меняет перспективы HDD
Объемы данных в современных дата-центрах растут быстрее, чем когда-либо. Обучение моделей искусственного интеллекта, резервные копии облачных сервисов, архивы видео и телеметрии требуют хранилищ, измеряемых уже не терабайтами, а петабайтами и эксабайтами. При таких масштабах ключевую роль по-прежнему играют жесткие диски: пока SSD берут на себя быстрые рабочие данные, магнитные накопители остаются основой долгосрочного хранения. Поэтому каждая новая ступень роста емкости напрямую влияет на экономику дата-центров. Один из последних примеров — диски Seagate объемом 44 ТБ, анонсированные несколько дней назад. Давайте разберемся.
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Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab
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Мир на пороге дефицита HDD: как облака и ИИ меняют рынок жестких дисков
HD для домашних ПК и ноутбуков сейчас редкость, ведь их во многом и вполне успешно заменили SSD. Однако эта технология по-прежнему очень востребована в дата-центрах. Так, в феврале 2026 года Western Digital сообщила , что ее мощности практически полностью застолбили крупные заказчики. Seagate подтвердила, что линии по высокоемким дискам для серверов загружены под завязку. Основные клиенты — операторы крупных облачных платформ, которые заранее бронируют объемы. WD получила предварительные заказы от семи крупнейших покупателей, часть из которых — до 2027 и 2028 годов. Зачем HDD в ЦОД? Есть несколько причин, но основная — это искусственный интеллект. При работе с ИИ важно не только обучать модели, но и хранить огромные массивы исходных данных, логов и резервных копий. В многоуровневых системах горячие данные размещаются на SSD, но основной объем холодных — на дисковых массивах. Речь идет о десятках и сотнях петабайт, где главное — стоимость хранения из расчета на терабайт, плюс предсказуемость инфраструктуры. Именно поэтому спрос на высокоемкие HDD резко вырос. Разберемся, насколько устойчивым будет такой перекос рынка и к чему это может привести.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/1002982/
#hdd #рынок #ии_меняет_рынок #облака_меняют_рынок #hdd_в_цод #hdd_в_датацентрах #western_digital #seagate #toshiba
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Мир на пороге дефицита HDD: как облака и ИИ меняют рынок жестких дисков
HD для домашних ПК и ноутбуков сейчас редкость, ведь их во многом и вполне успешно заменили SSD. Однако эта технология по-прежнему очень востребована в дата-центрах. Так, в феврале 2026 года Western Digital сообщила , что ее мощности практически полностью застолбили крупные заказчики. Seagate подтвердила, что линии по высокоемким дискам для серверов загружены под завязку. Основные клиенты — операторы крупных облачных платформ, которые заранее бронируют объемы. WD получила предварительные заказы от семи крупнейших покупателей, часть из которых — до 2027 и 2028 годов. Зачем HDD в ЦОД? Есть несколько причин, но основная — это искусственный интеллект. При работе с ИИ важно не только обучать модели, но и хранить огромные массивы исходных данных, логов и резервных копий. В многоуровневых системах горячие данные размещаются на SSD, но основной объем холодных — на дисковых массивах. Речь идет о десятках и сотнях петабайт, где главное — стоимость хранения из расчета на терабайт, плюс предсказуемость инфраструктуры. Именно поэтому спрос на высокоемкие HDD резко вырос. Разберемся, насколько устойчивым будет такой перекос рынка и к чему это может привести.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/1002984/
#hdd #рынок #ии_меняет_рынок #облака_меняют_рынок #hdd_в_цод #hdd_в_датацентрах #western_digital #seagate #toshiba
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With SanDisk Spun Off, WD is Reviving and Relaunching the G-Drive Brand https://petapixel.com/2026/02/19/with-sandisk-spun-off-wd-is-reviving-and-relaunching-the-g-drive-brand/ #sandiskprofessional #westerndigital #gtechnology #Equipment #harddrive #sandisk #gdrive #News #hdd #wd
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Tekoäly, taas: Maailman suurin kiintolevyvalmistaja WD kertoo, että se on myynyt jo etukäteen koko vuoden 2026 tuotantonsa
Ostajina olivat - tietysti - jättimäiset tekoälyfirmat, jotka käyttävät perinteisiä mekaanisia kiintolevyjäkin datakeskuksissaan.
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/02/17/wd-myi-koko-vuoden-tuotantonsa-etukateen
#kiintolevy #kovalevy #hdd #wd #tekoäly #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka
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🖥️ Fiabilité des disques durs en 2025 : Backblaze publie son bilan
👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fiabilite-disques-durs-2025-backblaze-146690/
#Fiabilité #DisqueDur #HDD #Hardware #Tech #Backblaze #Étude
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[Veille 📣] Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/On avait déjà eu le coup pour la DRAM (https://links.vulgarisons.info/admin/shaare/509), mais voici le problème sur les disques dur. C’est terminé, Western Digital a tout vendu pour l’année 2026.
Les entreprises du cloud représentent 89% des revenus total de WD, autant dire que ce qui arrive aux privés n’est pas vraiment le cadet de leurs soucis.
J’espère que vous avez ce qu’il faut pour les prochaines années, ou que vous êtes prêt·e·s à acheter du reconditionné.
Toute ma veille est disponible ici : https://links.vulgarisons.info/
#IA #marché #HDD #pénurie #WesternDigital
#links #veille -
Western Digital just said their '26 allocation of HDDs are already spoken for. And it's for AI. No surprise there. And WD said they've already taken huge orders for all the way out until '28. This AI BS has got to stop!
#AI #AIBubble #Bubble #AISlop #WesternDigital #HDD #HDDs #Storage #RAM #DRAM #CES
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Wann platzt endlich diese scheiß KI Blase?! 🙄
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Datacenter backup of backups
• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severelyConclusion
We are fucked!
• just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
• observe
History lesson
• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboardsWe survived
• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event periodWe shall overcome the LLM component crises
• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevailStay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve -
Datacenter backup of backups
• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severelyConclusion
We are fucked!
• just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
• observe
History lesson
• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboardsWe survived
• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event periodWe shall overcome the LLM component crises
• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevailStay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve -
Datacenter backup of backups
• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severelyConclusion
We are fucked!
• just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
• observe
History lesson
• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboardsWe survived
• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event periodWe shall overcome the LLM component crises
• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevailStay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve -
Datacenter backup of backups
• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severelyConclusion
We are fucked!
• just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
• observe
History lesson
• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboardsWe survived
• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event periodWe shall overcome the LLM component crises
• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevailStay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
2/2
#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve -
Datacenter backup of backups
• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severelyConclusion
We are fucked!
• just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
• observe
History lesson
• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboardsWe survived
• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event periodWe shall overcome the LLM component crises
• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevailStay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
2/2
#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve -
💾 Western Digital
We are sold out
WTF!??
Why?
• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.
Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!
Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!
CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's
Who is buying the HDD stock?
Datacenters
• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.Enterprise demand is decimating supply
• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storageEven though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.Results
• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDsDRAM and NAND
We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATsSince septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also
The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's
It’s about everything datacenter wise
What is needed in a datacenter?
• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power1/2
#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve
