Western Digital consumer share drops to just 5% as enterprise takes the rest, company has NO more HDD capacity after gigantic AI deals.
  • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5 months

    Are all these companies going to go bankrupt when the AI bubble pops and their products flood the market?

    • strifegroove@ani.socialEnglish
      5 months

      Issue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA.

      Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)

      • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zipEnglish
        4 months

        Unbuffered ECC DIMMs can be used as-is even on PCs not supporting ECC

        Registered DIMMs can be unsoldered and the RAM chips reused in a pinch converting them to unbuffered DIMMs I suppose?

        But reports of manufacturing capacity being moved to HBM will not benefit consumers if the bubble bursts.