A few weeks ago Micron announced it’s exiting the Crucial consumer business to focus on AI. Yesterday, a Samsung leak suggested they may end production of budget SATA SSDs for the same reason.
It’s hard not to see a pattern. If consumer hardware keeps getting sidelined, homelabbers and self-hosters lose affordable ways to own their data and run their own systems.
Feels like we’re being nudged toward the cloud by economics rather than choice. Maybe it’s time to treat hard drives like a scarce resource.
Are we overreacting, or is consumer-owned hardware being quietly phased out?
#privacy #homelab #selfhost #selfhosted #asknostr
It’s hard not to see a pattern. If consumer hardware keeps getting sidelined, homelabbers and self-hosters lose affordable ways to own their data and run their own systems.
Feels like we’re being nudged toward the cloud by economics rather than choice. Maybe it’s time to treat hard drives like a scarce resource.
Are we overreacting, or is consumer-owned hardware being quietly phased out?
#privacy #homelab #selfhost #selfhosted #asknostr
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