Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs. Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage ... .
Now that SanDisk has been spun off into its own separate brand, Western Digital (now known as just WD) is reinvigorating the G-Drive brand and transitioning all of the HDD products that used to be SanDisk Professional over to it. [Read More] ... .
It may become harder — and more expensive — to find certain hard drives this year ...Industry analysts say heavy demand from large data center operators and AI companies is tightening supply for some hard disk drives.
“AI” data centers are gobbling up all the hard drives. Yes, hard drives ... But “AI” models need to hold lots of data, too, which is why Western Digital is now out of hard drives for the rest of the year.
hard drives ... The enormous demand from AI industry players has already hit the hard drive market hard. In November, Tom’s Hardware reported that hard drives were on backorder for two years following major investments in AI data centers.