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Wenn man im Wäschekorb beim Sortieren der nächsten Ladung eine 32GB microSD Karte (glücklicherweise im größeren SD Kartenadapter) findet, hat man dann zu wenig oder zu viele SD Karten?

#microSD #Wäsche #Waesche

AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks

The AGM G3 Pro is a classic rugged smartphone that is clearly designed for maximum …
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #AGM #Android #Battery #benchmarks #CA #camera #camping #Canada #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #GNSS #graphicscard #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #review #reviews #Rugged #smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #thermal #waterproof
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/689674/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/980910/ AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks #AGM #Android #Battery #Benchmarks #Camera #camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #gnss #GraphicsCard #laptop #mediatek #microSD #MILSTD810H #Mobile #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #Review #Reviews #Rugged #smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #thermal #UK #UnitedKingdom #waterproof

AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks

The AGM G3 Pro is a classic rugged smartphone tha…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mobile #AGM #Android #battery #benchmarks #camera #Camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #gnss #graphicscard #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #review #reviews #Rugged #Smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #Thermal #waterproof
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/661337/

AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks

The AGM G3 Pro is a classic rugged smartphone tha…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mobile #AGM #Android #battery #benchmarks #camera #Camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #gnss #graphicscard #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #review #reviews #Rugged #Smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #Thermal #waterproof
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/661337/

AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks

The AGM G3 Pro is a classic rugged smartphone that is clearly designed for maxim…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #AGM #Android #AU #Australia #battery #benchmarks #camera #camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #GNSS #graphicscard #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #review #reviews #Rugged #smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #thermal #waterproof
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/690143/

AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks

The AGM G3 Pro is a classic rugged smartphone that is clearly designed for maxim…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #AGM #Android #AU #Australia #battery #benchmarks #camera #camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #GNSS #graphicscard #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #review #reviews #Rugged #smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #thermal #waterproof
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/690143/

AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks

The AGM G3 Pro is a classic rugged smartphone that is clearly designed for m…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #AGM #android #battery #benchmarks #camera #camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #gnss #graphicscard #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #netbook #notebook #outdoor #Performance #processor #reports #review #Reviews #Rugged #smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #thermal #UK #UnitedKingdom #waterproof
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/600335/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/499459/ AGM G3 Pro: A rugged smartphone with its quirks #AGM #Android #Battery #benchmarks #camera #Camping #Dimensity #durable #dustproof #Éire #GNSS #GraphicsCard #IE #Ireland #laptop #MediaTek #microSD #MILSTD810H #Mobile #netbook #notebook #outdoor #performance #processor #reports #Review #Reviews #Rugged #Smartphone #speaker #Technology #test #tests #thermal #waterproof

Headphones jack? ✅️
microSD? ✅️
In the year 2026? ✅️

What is happening?! Also, I love the Burdundy red model!!

#Xperia #Phone #Tech #Headphonesjack #microSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQAQR5qOPfw

So, labels for microSD cards ?

Can only find 13 x 8mm ones, which are slightly too big, seems 10x8mmm would fit better

Also bought some 8mm circle labels, but not ideal either...

https://amzn.eu/d/07fsLzEJ
https://amzn.eu/d/0cxoHEJX

#RaspberryPi #sdcard #microSD

Huge Batch of Lexar Memory Cards Are up to 70% Off, Actually Making Them Affordable https://petapixel.com/2026/05/04/huge-batch-of-lexar-memory-cards-are-up-to-70-off-actually-making-them-affordable/ #compactflash #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #discount #microsd #Deals #lexar #deal #sale #sd

Huge Batch of Lexar Memory Cards Are up to 70% Off, Actually Making Them Affordable https://petapixel.com/2026/05/04/huge-batch-of-lexar-memory-cards-are-up-to-70-off-actually-making-them-affordable/ #compactflash #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #discount #microsd #Deals #lexar #deal #sale #sd

Huge Batch of Lexar Memory Cards Are up to 70% Off, Actually Making Them Affordable https://petapixel.com/2026/05/04/huge-batch-of-lexar-memory-cards-are-up-to-70-off-actually-making-them-affordable/ #compactflash #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #discount #microsd #Deals #lexar #deal #sale #sd

Huge Batch of Lexar Memory Cards Are up to 70% Off, Actually Making Them Affordable https://petapixel.com/2026/05/04/huge-batch-of-lexar-memory-cards-are-up-to-70-off-actually-making-them-affordable/ #compactflash #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #discount #microsd #Deals #lexar #deal #sale #sd

Huge Batch of Lexar Memory Cards Are up to 70% Off, Actually Making Them Affordable https://petapixel.com/2026/05/04/huge-batch-of-lexar-memory-cards-are-up-to-70-off-actually-making-them-affordable/ #compactflash #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #discount #microsd #Deals #lexar #deal #sale #sd

Never mind the removal of the headphone jack. Phone makers are now eliminating the microSD card slot. Prices are increasing while features are decreasing. 😑

#CorporateGreed #BigTech #SmartPhones #Manufacturers #BigCorpo #MicroSD #CardSlot #ExternalMemory #HeadphoneJack

Never mind the removal of the headphone jack. Phone makers are now eliminating the microSD card slot. Prices are increasing while features are decreasing. 😑

#CorporateGreed #BigTech #SmartPhones #Manufacturers #BigCorpo #MicroSD #CardSlot #ExternalMemory #HeadphoneJack

Never mind the removal of the headphone jack. Phone makers are now eliminating the microSD card slot. Prices are increasing while features are decreasing. 😑

#CorporateGreed #BigTech #SmartPhones #Manufacturers #BigCorpo #MicroSD #CardSlot #ExternalMemory #HeadphoneJack

Never mind the removal of the headphone jack. Phone makers are now eliminating the microSD card slot. Prices are increasing while features are decreasing. 😑

#CorporateGreed #BigTech #SmartPhones #Manufacturers #BigCorpo #MicroSD #CardSlot #ExternalMemory #HeadphoneJack

https://www.europesays.com/ro/147701/ Sony suspendă producția de carduri de memorie în urma crizei de componente #CFexpress #MicroSD #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #sony #stocare #Technology #tehnologie

Save Big Ahead of World Backup Day With These Memory Card Deals https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/save-big-ahead-of-world-backup-day-with-these-memory-card-deals/ #bhphotovideo #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #microsd #savings #storage #Deals #cards #deals #b&h #sd

Save Big Ahead of World Backup Day With These Memory Card Deals https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/save-big-ahead-of-world-backup-day-with-these-memory-card-deals/ #bhphotovideo #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #microsd #savings #storage #Deals #cards #deals #b&h #sd

Save Big Ahead of World Backup Day With These Memory Card Deals https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/save-big-ahead-of-world-backup-day-with-these-memory-card-deals/ #bhphotovideo #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #microsd #savings #storage #Deals #cards #deals #b&h #sd

Save Big Ahead of World Backup Day With These Memory Card Deals https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/save-big-ahead-of-world-backup-day-with-these-memory-card-deals/ #bhphotovideo #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #microsd #savings #storage #Deals #cards #deals #b&h #sd

Save Big Ahead of World Backup Day With These Memory Card Deals https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/save-big-ahead-of-world-backup-day-with-these-memory-card-deals/ #bhphotovideo #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #microsd #savings #storage #Deals #cards #deals #b&h #sd

Selfix: a capa que adiciona um segundo ecrã e microSD aos iPhone 17 Pro
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t80910-selfix-a-capa-que-adiciona-um-segundo-ecra-e-microsd-aos-iphone-17-pro

#capa #iphone #microsd 

手機加價造就Micro SD「翻生」 UFS 高速與平價容量終極抉擇
https://www.am730.com.hk/科技/1020687/手機加價造就micro-sd-翻生-ufs-高速與平價容量終極抉擇

I've just had a nice experience playing with raspberry connect. Both ssh and vnc work smoothly

https://connect.raspberrypi.com/devices

#sshd #ssh #vnc #realvnc

#RaspberryPi #Pi5 #Debian #Linux #OpenSource #POSIX #micro #HDMI #Ventoy #ISO #manager #POST #microSD #ARM

I've just had a nice experience playing with raspberry connect. Both ssh and vnc work smoothly

https://connect.raspberrypi.com/devices

#sshd #ssh #vnc #realvnc

#RaspberryPi #Pi5 #Debian #Linux #OpenSource #POSIX #micro #HDMI #Ventoy #ISO #manager #POST #microSD #ARM

I've just had a nice experience playing with raspberry connect. Both ssh and vnc work smoothly

https://connect.raspberrypi.com/devices

#sshd #ssh #vnc #realvnc

#RaspberryPi #Pi5 #Debian #Linux #OpenSource #POSIX #micro #HDMI #Ventoy #ISO #manager #POST #microSD #ARM

Another year, another 'best microSD cards' list. This time, Engadget's looking at 2025, and surprise, surprise: the Nintendo Switch 2 is pushing new, expensive microSD Express cards. Because who doesn't love paying a premium for a new 'standard' your old gear probably won't use? What tech standard are you *still* annoyed about upgrading for?
#MicroSD #NintendoSwitch2 #TechRant #Hardware #StorageSolutions
https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-microsd-card-130038282.html?src=rss

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 severely

Conclusion

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 motherboards

We 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 period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay 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 severely

Conclusion

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 motherboards

We 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 period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay 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 severely

Conclusion

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 motherboards

We 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 period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay 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 severely

Conclusion

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 motherboards

We 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 period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay 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 severely

Conclusion

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 motherboards

We 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 period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay 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 storage

Even 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 HDDs

DRAM 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 HATs

Since 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 power

1/2

#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 decumating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even 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 HDDs

DRAM 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 HATs

Since 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 power

1/2

#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 decumating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even 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 HDDs

DRAM 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 HATs

Since 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 power

1/2

#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 decumating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even 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 HDDs

DRAM 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 HATs

Since 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 power

1/2

#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 storage

Even 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 HDDs

DRAM 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 HATs

Since 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 power

1/2

#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

Llano’s Colorful New 4-in-1 Card Reader Is Built for Big Data Transfers https://petapixel.com/2026/03/17/llanos-colorful-new-4-in-1-card-reader-is-built-for-big-data-transfers/ #accessories #cardreader #memorycard #Equipment #cfexpress #microsd #storage #llano #News #sd

Plus de stockage pour votre Nintendo Switch 2 : la microSD Express Lexar Play Pro est en promo !
https://mac4ever.com/193403
#Mac4Ever #Console #microSD #microSDExpress #Nintendo #Stockage #Switch2

Crazy stuff. 1TB #NVMe in #microSD size. This will reach higher capacities, thanks to #Nintendo. There needs to be a force pushing this stuff from behind. We would've still got stuck with the inferior Intel if Apple didn't go for ARM. Although it is annoying that most consumer SSDs are still capped at 8TB.

#Switch2 #microSDEx #microSDExpress

PNY Unveils microSD Express Cards for Switch 2 https://petapixel.com/2025/05/24/pny-unveils-microsd-express-cards-for-switch-2/ #nintendoswitch2 #microsdexpress #memorycard #Equipment #sdexpress #nintendo #microsd #News

Nintendo Switch 2 Unveiling Sees microSD Express Cards Fly Off Japanese Shelves #console #gaming #handheld #hardware #microsd #microsdexpress #nintendo #nintendoswitch2 #storage #switch2

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/348702/nintendo-switch-2-unveiling-sees-microsd-express-cards-fly-off-japanese-shelves/

Switch 2: Storage Issues and Backward Compatibility
A little bit more about the Switch 2? Sure why not?

First thing. I've mentioned this on social media, and I want to spread the word as much as I can about it, because this is going to catch people by surprise, and this way as many will find out about it going in as possible. In addition to cost
https://setsideb.com/switch-2-backward-compatibility/
#hardware #news #niche #hardware #MicroSD #MicroSDExpress #news #niche #switch #Switch2

SD Express Finally Has a Use, But It Dumped Its Biggest ‘Advantage’ https://petapixel.com/2025/04/02/sd-express-finally-has-a-use-but-it-dumped-its-biggest-advantage/ #microsdexpress #Technology #sdexpress #nintendo #microsd #storage #News #sd

Powered off my #homeassistant #rpi4 today to change the fan.

re-powered ... and NOTHING.

turns out, the SanDisk A2 U3 #microSD is now completely fried.
Can't even be access anymore. SD-card readers just give up completely.

Really glad I did not use #hass default backup automation, but regularly pull backups to a separate server with my own script :-)

https://gist.github.com/btittelbach/d09c82ca8edbc53f75805c6a519ecb81

Restoring took a long while, but went smoothly.