Hearing from clients overseas (India, APAC) that their on hand workstation replacement hard drive inventory is empty. They have no drives in reserve.
There are two issues being reported, first that the corporate supply chain for new hard drives has dried up and second the retail cost of replacement drives is far too expensive for SMBs.
IT people are resourceful and will probably be able to keep things running for a while. But eventually all drives fail and the market needs to ramp up production. Or shift back away from producing AI related hardware to desktop hardware.
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