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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Why… why would hard drives be going up in price?? AI does not use spinning platters of rust, like, at all.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yes it does. Where do you think they store those gigantic training datasets?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    relative to the hard drive market in general, that seems like a drop in the bucket. research labs like CERN write TBs per SECOND

    quality data sets don’t even come close

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They might write to faster storage first, then dump to slower larger storage afterwards

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    they might, but the point is the volume of data rather than the speed… CERN is obviously an outlier, but not by as much as you’d think. copious amounts of data is kinda par for the course in a lot of cases, and training data just doesn’t even come close to the volume of data that large data users produce (data warehouses/lakes in the order of PB and EB are not that uncommon)

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