Wait til all these projects crash, burn, and get liquidated. Gonna be an amazing secondary market for brand new, unused bulk hardware.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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But you won't be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.
I think people don't realise that if AI fails, it's pretty much guaranteed to collapse the US economy.
Don't you worry it's gonna have a global impact againjudt like it did in 08. Imagine losing your job in Italy for instance cause some bankers got ultra rich in the US. What a dumb fucking world.
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Do it, do it, do it, do it!
I've lived though several "one in a live time" crashes.
Meh, not really a full collapse. Just like 75% of it and a huuuuge recession. Or maybe a "Tiny Depression"? Basically, 10 years to recover. Which is where we're going anyway, with or without AI.
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Yes, of course
Except, i doubt anyone will be doing much with a 32 code Xenon CPU Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
And the cuda only fanless and outputless GPU will also be kinda useless, especially because they all need a special setup to force feed air through the entire rack to not overheat
a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
Year of the Linux Desktop! Any day now... any day... huffs copium
I mean it’s 64/128/256 cores for home/pro/workstation so not really. People buying aftermarket server parts that want windows can probably figure out how to type irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex if they don’t want to pay for it anyways lol.
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Not really. They're not making consumer grade stuff, they're making hardware for data centers so unless you're planning on doing a DIY data center you're not buying the hardware. Hard drives are likely an exception.
You're more likely to see cheap VPS services than cheap secondhand hardware.
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Free market totally regulating itself like we’ve always been told.
How can you doubt the Invisible Hand? Have you not seen how much it jerks?
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I declare all resources mine purchased with a fancy loan. Now that all resources are mine, they are all worth 100,000 times more then before. Dont worry, if you cant afford to pay 100,000x more you can rent some if my stuff! Also now that I own everything, I'm To Big To Fail and will need a bailout when I cant pay my fancy loan.
This is the healthiest, most efficient economy possible. Aliens visit earth and you want to know why? To study our highly advanced economic system of course!
They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price..
If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.
That's 1 day. Guaranteed if someone walked in and said "I want to buy all the water you can sell for the next 9 months", they'd be singing a very different tune.
That's because they're guaranteed to sell all the water when there's a storm anyway. There's a reason there's laws against raising prices in an emergency.
I consider not having access to reasonably-priced hardware an emergency ;(
When Trump threatened tariffs I went ahead and bought 50 TB of storage. With my then expansion it would easily last me until the end of Trump's turn and maybe a decade if I rationed.
Turns out that was one of my best calls of judgements to date, just not for the reason I thought.
I bought 10kg of Playadito Yerba Mate at the beginning of 2025, should also have thought about storage, now I have to start cleaning up.
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3 months ago, watching ram prices skyrocketing, anticipating this exact scenario would happen, i bought 5 10tb drives.
best decision i've made in a while.
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I'm afraid that a lot of the infrastructure will be heavily catered towards DoD computing resources. This means after the components hit their lifecycle, they aren't released to the used markets on ebay, instead they are shredded and rendered electronic waste.
All of those GPUs will be irrelevent in 24 months, and almost all of them are useless to consumers.
Its by design, its intentional.
They want you hooked to their cloud teat.
A lot of scientists, tinkerers, 3D renderers and such would love cheap A100s and up.
On the contrary, I don't think they will get cheaper. Somehow they'll get bought back and trashed (like Nvidia has done in the past), hoarded, tasked with busywork, something that that.
They wont let them leave because it'd be falling into "the competitions" hands.
They'll shred every single last bit of silicon.
I guess my combined 12TB across five drives ranging in age from 13 to six years old will have to suffice. The only reason I'd need to buy a new drive is if a couple of my current drives die. Which does happen on occasion, of course.
Also, fuck AI, and the assholes who made it, and everyone who currently, personally profits off it. This bubble popping will be the catalyst to take down the entire world economy. MMW.
Just in case: https://serverpartdeals.com/ Still the same sort of prices you expect, but decent warranties on re-certified enterprise HDDs.
Oddly, I've never had an HDD or SSD ever die on me. I've got old ass ones that aren't even a GB that I've torn apart and thrown away. My oldest SSD just got removed and put in a cabinet because 256gb is just too small.
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Can't wait for the bubble to pop and the used SAS HDD market to overflow with cheap hardware. Same with RAM.
Same with RAM.
Unfortunately, the RAM shortage is caused by a RAM component being diverted to specialized packages that can't easily be converted into normal RAM. So even a bubble bursting won't bring RAM onto the market.
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I'm so fucking over this bullshit.
Bullshit. I call 100% bullshit.
Wdym? Do you believe the manufacturers would try to congincr you they're out of stock to create scarcity and increace prices?!? Do you jnow how silly that idea is?! \s
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The end model will be the 70s Arthur Clarke prediction. Just a dumb terminal with no processing capabilities at home, hooked to a mainframe (privately owned of course) which you'll have to use your all your daily needs.
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What about SSDs?
You're gonna need to sit down for me to tell you about NAND prices
Those prices have already been driven up. For 4 TB NVMe:
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
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Yeah... but the slop!
glad i kept all the ones pulled from previous ssd upgrades and ewaste that went through here. i have several i have yet to reuse.
the shit-tier shingled ones i got a couple years ago to store media files had been relatively stable for years on price at ~ 100-110usd. they're now 170+
I just have bouth 12TB WD off their site last month. Checked right now - Sales Inquiry instead of Add to cart. Rip...
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