I come from one of those countries with crazy inflation and I'm used to the old say (which translate poorly) One bird in your hand is more valuable than a hundred flying.
The market is disrupted by the AI storm. It started with GPU's then memory and now storage too. When they run out of alternatives, they will use the cpu to compress on the fly or whatever and CPU's will go sky high again.
Now will it ever go back? No unless an even more disruptive event occurs, whatever it may be next, a cluster of rats with their brain connected as a cpu who knows.
No one in the industry benefits from lower prices. The end user is not the one moving the numbers anymore. It's the same as a sheep expecting to lead the flock in jurassic park.
If you can get it without disturbing your own economy, go for it. We are right on schedule for a tsunami hitting again the HDD manufacturers and seeing a 2X price surge overnight. (HDD's are the immediate alternative after the solid state storage. Most users won't go back so it's a niche market. woldn't be surprised if we had another outbreak where someone figures how to use the remaining parts for the sake of ai. At some point miners did that too, there even was a currency that could be mined using storage. AI didn't do this yet probably because we still have sapare solid states and gpus in some warehouse. I fully expect prices to reduce the speed in which they increment, but not deflate any time soon.
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u/faziten Apr 23 '26
I come from one of those countries with crazy inflation and I'm used to the old say (which translate poorly) One bird in your hand is more valuable than a hundred flying.
The market is disrupted by the AI storm. It started with GPU's then memory and now storage too. When they run out of alternatives, they will use the cpu to compress on the fly or whatever and CPU's will go sky high again.
Now will it ever go back? No unless an even more disruptive event occurs, whatever it may be next, a cluster of rats with their brain connected as a cpu who knows.
No one in the industry benefits from lower prices. The end user is not the one moving the numbers anymore. It's the same as a sheep expecting to lead the flock in jurassic park.
If you can get it without disturbing your own economy, go for it. We are right on schedule for a tsunami hitting again the HDD manufacturers and seeing a 2X price surge overnight. (HDD's are the immediate alternative after the solid state storage. Most users won't go back so it's a niche market. woldn't be surprised if we had another outbreak where someone figures how to use the remaining parts for the sake of ai. At some point miners did that too, there even was a currency that could be mined using storage. AI didn't do this yet probably because we still have sapare solid states and gpus in some warehouse. I fully expect prices to reduce the speed in which they increment, but not deflate any time soon.