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
Is that one machine?
Wouldn’t this topic be more appropriate in other communities? Preaching to the choir here.
You can cross post it?
Yeah but I cannot find any HDDs
I scored some new WD 14tb drives for $120 US last October, and I am glad I did! Was a hell of a deal.
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.
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 The naysayers keep forgetting that hardware gets old, it wears out and fails, and gets superseded by newer models.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.
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.
If people refuse to pay the prices and use their products then eventually they will run out of money and credit to do so.
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.
Was going to buy a bunch off serverpartdeals in January/february. Got one for Christmas as a gift at least, but the en the price started going to the moon and I’ve decided the raid array can wait
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…
You only need a tb or two
Tell that to my arr stack
you get me…
Yes good for you but that’s not mandatory
Maybe. Depends on the use case.
Lol
Thanks doc
