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.
Tribalism is a part, no doubt, but we are more than capable of rising above it and seeing beyond our tribalism, or at the very least seeing humanity as a single tribe/super organism.