My understanding is the large AI companies sign purchase agreements with the manufacturers for X amount of drives. The manufacturers then take whatever chips/platters and build those drives. The AI companies have signed such large agreements that all the chips and layers are going to whatever drives they’re asking for and none left to make consumer drives.

Mental health awareness and action in the US? As if

Until you buy twelve to hold each color you want to swap between daily and build an ink collection that could float the Titanic because this blue shades different from that blue.

It’s so fun though.

We could cut that way down if I could just repair and replace parts more. We’ve gone so single use commodity on all this tech and don’t repurpose or repair like we should.

I feel like I’m starting to see it die down some. There’ll always be pockets but it seems when people ask for which distro they just get advice and not flame wars as much

For my buddy and I our critical data doesn’t change often so once or twice a year when we get together we swap drives again. Simple spinning discs for us. No need for hardware or anything to keep them running. They just sit on a shelf just in case something happens we can hand it back to pull the data back onto a running server

My friend who lives a thousand miles away swaps hard drives with me that are backups of critical stuff. He keeps my data, I keep his. As others have said your garage is a start but you really want some sort of geographically separate backup.