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The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet (opens in new tab)

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The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

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selfh.st·

Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026)

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Hard drive shortage affecting enterprise storage needs

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Computer Sweden·

Brist på hårddiskar pressar företagens lagring

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