Hard Drives may become scarce

Fionn

just when we thought things couldn't get worse with all the GPU/CPU scalping and price increases, apparently miners in China are buying up available hard drives at an increased pace in preparation of a new cryptocurrency, so before too long we might see these items become as hard to find as the GPUs etc.

It's all down to a new cryptocurrency thats going to be launched soon.

Chia Network.

So if your upgrading or building, it might be a good idea to get your storage sorted as soon as you can, just in case!!

markmoto

Fionn wrote: »

just when we thought things couldn't get worse with all the GPU/CPU scalping and price increases, apparently miners in China are buying up available hard drives at an increased pace in preparation of a new cryptocurrency, so before too long we might see these items become as hard to find as the GPUs etc.

It's all down to a new cryptocurrency thats going to be launched soon.

Chia Network.

So if your upgrading or building, it might be a good idea to get your storage sorted as soon as you can, just in case!!

Unless cryptocurrencies accepted and regulated by Governments worldwide it would continue to be speculation scheme.

Calibos

Fionn wrote: »

just when we thought things couldn't get worse with all the GPU/CPU scalping and price increases, apparently miners in China are buying up available hard drives at an increased pace in preparation of a new cryptocurrency, so before too long we might see these items become as hard to find as the GPUs etc.

It's all down to a new cryptocurrency thats going to be launched soon.

Chia Network.

So if your upgrading or building, it might be a good idea to get your storage sorted as soon as you can, just in case!!

I'm already sorted for a long while methinks, thanks ;)

1x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME Gen 4
1x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo+ NVME Gen 3
1x 256GB Samsung 970 Evo+ NVME Gen 3
1x 1TB Samsung 970 Evo SSD
2x 500GB Samsung 970 Evo SSD
2x 3TB Toshibia 7200rpm HDD
5x 8TB WD Shucked Mybook White/Red 5400RPM HDD's

Spread across new main rig and Media Server build.

H3llR4iser

I guess I might get rich so, as I keep finding myself with hard drives scattered around the places which I have no idea what to do with

But yeah, this sounds a lot like the unheard advice to "build a PC now" given out in March/April last year, so it can definitely happen.

Syferus

HDDs will never be anywhere close to as scarce as GPUs or even CPU, very different supply chains. Prices might fluctuate a little naturally but that's all that will happen.