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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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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are a lot of "refurbished" drives from when the Chia bubble popped (a useless shitcoin that wasted HDD space with garbage data as a proof of cryptographic work)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Data storage devices are the last items you wanna buy second hand though. A drive failing could mean much more than just having to buy a new one.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    HDDs used for chia mining or similar shitcoins have been used for just a full wipe to create the huge rainbow table or whatever the shitcoin needed and then left on idle with very little read activity for years

    It's not the typical "end of life" server HDD with 80k hours of 24/7 full use

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This makes me think: if chia and similar coins simply generated the monopoly money by "finding the right numbers on the right rainbow table" ... were they a covert way for some government to have a distributed decryption network? Especially thinking how popular it was in china

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