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So, if the AI bubble pops, it'll be a great time to build a PC
Like there won't be some other hype to immediately take it's place. Just like Bitcoin GPU prices never collapsed because it went right into AI hype.
The next hype lined up is quantum
Fortunately they won't need most normal PC hardware for this. At least not CPU's and GPUs AFAIK.
"Quantum emulation" all the hype, 1/1000th the efficiency, 1000X the excuses to sell hardware
Tbf Bitcoin didn't fuck with the GPU market, that was more etherium's doing
Bitcoin trashed the GPU market before moving on to Asics. Then other coins kept going on GPUs.
Til. I've only ever seen the application specific boards for Bitcoin.
Which is even sadder because Ethereum has always been a trash coin.
Why? And which coins are good?
Ethereum formally introduced the concept of smart contracts, and they had serious potential for modernizing financial contracts and push back an entire predatory industry of leechers, but instead it was used to create meme-coins and scam coins and ruined it all.
It's move to proof of stake instead of proof of work dramatically reduced its energy usage, and makes it a actually scalable, but the masses lost interest when they couldn't just make money off a few GPUs and turned to the aforementioned shit-coins built on the Ethereum network.
Ethereum is not bad, it's one of the better ones. It's just kind of responsible for the explosion of shit/scam coins, because people are shitty scammers.
The explosion of scam coins was basically inevitable, it's what you get with zero regulation.
*Home server farm.
When the AI bubble pops we'll all be too broke to buy any PC anything.
The Buffett Index, America's total stock valuation vs. GDP, is at 200%. It was around 130% in 1929, 2000 and 2007. Guess what? Chicken butts. (is what we'll all be eating)
THIS is what I'm looking forward to. I'm guessing it'll start sometime next year, so shortly after Christmas '26 will be the optimal time -at least that's my long-term plan.
Oh for fucks sake… I wanted to expand my NAS… Crypto was (is still responsible) for the shit state of the GPU Market and now it’s the next scam.
i just bought an 8tb drive a couple weeks ago with zero issue
What else are these data centers going to hoard?
Jobs, GPUs, water, hard drives
Land.
Privacy
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Oh this must be for ~~training~~ stolen data
When it all comes crashing down, at least the Internet Archive could have easy & cheap access to it all. I trust them to handle it more responsibly than the AI bros.
I haven't been following trends but I just looked on newegg, and HDD and SSD prices look about where they were before, or maybe a bit higher. It's nothing like the Chia craze where every drive of any kind was snapped up by crypto miners. Or the simliar thing further back where a flood in Thailand(?) clobbered a factory so there were big shortages and price spikes. Right now you can get drives if you're willing to pay for them. There just hasn't been the usual downward price trend.
I've been buying refurbished drives from ServerPartDeals and looking at my invoice from March versus now the price of the same drive has gone up 10% from $180 to $198 (Ultrastar HC530 14TB)
I was going to say hurricane, but you're right, it was flooding in 2011.
Yeah, hurricanes aren't really a thing in that region, they have monsoons instead.
Ram shortage too. But most users should avoid QLC.
I noticed the price doubled since the last time I ordered a drive, like a year ago.
Yah. Now is a good time to sit tight and wait if you can.
I've been waiting over a month for my MicroCenter to restock Western Digital 14-16 TB HDD to upgrade my NAS. I finally caved and ordered direct from Western Digital. It still took them 10 days to ship the order.
Seagate drives continue to remain in stock but i'd like to reduce my chances of premature drive failures.
RAID5, don't fail me now!
Damn, I started building a home server this summer, and I still need some HDDs for a NAS...
Makes me glad I built my nephew a country l computer last Christmas instead of this one.
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