According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.
The devices will be returned to the supplier (they are supplied on credit) and then destroyed.
The manufacturers won’t want to flood the market with discounted hardware.