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The only way to combat this is the same way to combat toilet paper shortages.

I buy one hard disk, AI company busy 40% of global supply. Me not buying that one hard disk is not going to change anything.

According to Western Digital, thanks to a surge in demand from its enterprise customers, the consumer market now accounts for just 5 percent of the company's revenue.

Just last week my btrfs filesystem got irrecoverably corrupted. This is like the fourth time it has happened to me in the last 10 years. Do not use it in consumer grade hardware. Compared to this, ext4 is rock solid. It was even able to survive me accidentally passing the currently running host's hard disk to a VM guest, which booted from it.