Time to repurpose all of my random mixed capacity HDDs in a bag somewhere, I guess.
Needshould*I’ve got 200TB of HDDs all with 80,000+ hours on them :(
Pray they don’t break in the next 4 years.
I’ll join you
Ram and HDD prices: 📈
Me: 😭
We need to, but can we?
I run, my own:
- Mbin server
- Matrix server
- Nextcloud server
- GitLab server and Gitea server
- Speedtest server
- PlantUML server
- Wekan server
- BCH Explorer
- Grafana
- Mumble server
- Dozens of websites
- Proxmox instance that hosted its all, at home
Jellyfin is great. My latest addition to my media ecosystem was audiobookshelf which is really nice as well if you like to listen to ebooks.
Jellyfin and Immich jave stayed as mainstays after like 2 dozen projects I’ve tried on. That and a Samba share.
Beginner here. What do you mean by a Samba share? Do you mean a shared network folder? Or something more elaborate?
Yes they mean a SMB share. A type of network share that works (mostly) with Linux and windows.
do NOT open SMB to the internet. You will get crypto’d in minutes. Just a warning for any newbs coming here.
Edit: ow… And you should too!
Why GitLab and Gitea?
I run gitea on a different kind of internet…
So they can push and pull at the same time, silly!
Duh
Is that one machine?
Yes just one homelab server.
Actually even its on 1 Linux VM (but that doesn’t mean you should also use a single VM). Anyways tldr; Yes.
Yeah but I cannot find any HDDs
I am SO pissed off about this AI hardware grab causing global shortages, im about to revert to using fucking tape drives for storage and core rope memory as RAM.
Its by design, I swear. They don’t have anywhere to run any of this gear, its all piling up somewhere.
Either that or it doesn’t exist and what we’re seeing is price gouging based on hypothetical demand based off of “letters of intent” that aren’t actually worth the paper they’re written on.
I think its the latter.
Yep, Western Digital said they were sold out of drives for all of 2026. Since 2026 is just starting, they haven’t actually produced those drives or gotten actual money for them.
Hopefully the bubble pops soon, though I hate that Americans’ 401Ks and IRAs will take the brunt of the “losses” when it does.
Yep, Western Digital said they were sold out of drives for all of 2026. Since 2026 is just starting, they haven’t actually produced those drives or gotten actual money for them.
This is exceedingly normal procedure for manufacturing companies, and not limited to tech industry by any means. They know how much they can potentially produce on their lines, if they have predicted customers to fulfill the capacity for a full year they are basically sold out despite not having produced most of it yet.
The company I work for also has “sold out” for several of our factories because we have orders for 110% production capacity on them. Orders are not paid up front, they never are in any industry, it’s always paid after delivery usually with a 30-90 days delay (and even more in some cases).
There is nothing spectacularly weird or out of place in the announcement they’ve made, it’s basically standard procedure.
The whole thing is speculation because its based off the back of letters of intent, no real contracts for anything. Its all still, currently, smoke and mirrors until something is inked and someone gets paid (or atleast, finance agreed)
So right now, we’re watching bullshit speculators sink the market. And/or restricted supply being used to milk us like cows.
It’s definitely the latter. These are writing contracts to buy hardware that has yet to be produced for data centres that haven’t been built. All so they can satisfy a demand that doesn’t yet exist for a product no one is going to be willing to pay for.
It will crash. This whole grift is too expensive to keep going. The naysayers keep forgetting that hardware gets old, it wears out and fails, and gets superseded by newer models. The chip makers are riding high now because the idiotic belief of the market is that this will keep growing as the data centres keep being built and the AI companies will keep buying new hardware.
It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.
It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.
I hope you’re right b/c right now feels like the classic “market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid” type situation.
It’s the components that make up these things that’s being bought to make data center hardware. They never make it to the consumer product factory.
Uhhuh so they’re tooling up to make devices for a company that wont exist soon for datacenters that have no power.
All that shit is going in the landfill and they will be desperately repackaging HBM into consumer products. Bet.
I didn’t realize HDDs are taking a hit now… I’m moving overseas and opted to move my sever with me instead of rebuilding since ram alone is close to 1k now. I didn’t price HDDs at the time cause they are only 4 years old… Sure hope they hold on for another few years…
Thanks doc
