Originally Posted by
DanceswithUnix
I'm fingers crossed that plotting will keep the rate that new hard drives can be deployed down to sane levels. There are a lot of hard drives made per year, and this looks a significant but not overwhelming bump in demand. That contrasts with GPUs which can be deployed as fast as you can plug them into a motherboard and boot them off your PXE network booting mining distro.
Remember when you couldn't buy loo roll? There were warehouses full of the stuff, and plenty of raw material for making more, but the shops were empty. Or flour, where there was tons of the stuff around, just not in the 1kg bags that consumers expect.
So I'm believing like a Disney princess that this is a supply chain spike issue, not a real problem.