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Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bitcoin trashed the GPU market before moving on to Asics. Then other coins kept going on GPUs.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Hadn't bitcoin not been viable on GPUs for over a decade? Most of the cryptocurrency hype was mining other coins on GPUs, or using them to do blockchain calculations for NFTs and things.

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