First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales
by _tk_ on 3/29/2026, 5:14:59 PM
https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage
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by: tombert
I have a giant storage RAID for my home server, with a bunch of 16TB drives. I bought each of the drives used about three years ago, and they cost about $120 each. They have been working fine until last night.<p>One of them appears to be broken [1]. No big deal, this is what RAIDs are for, I go and try to find one and now they're going anywhere between 2-4x that price, for a used one! It's not going to bankrupt me (and having a home server is a privilege in the first place, that's not lost on me), but I really hope that the others survive, at least until this storage crunch is over. If it ever does end...sigh.<p>I guess I didn't realize that even relatively slow storage like spinner drives was going to be affected too.<p>[1] I think, I am <i>really</i> hoping it's just a bad connection or something but I haven't fully diagnosed it yet.<p>ETA: Looks like at least in my case it was actually just a bad SATA cable. The drive is reading properly and resilvering now. Phew.
3/29/2026, 6:30:04 PM
by: profsummergig
Some years ago, Modi announced that he was going to make India go all-in on semiconductors. When I read that the first facility to begin commercial production was going to be Micron with memory chips, I did an eyeroll. Memory chips? And just an assembly and testing facility? To me that seemed like an easy cop-out. To me (my admittedly naive self), wafer fabs and CPUs seemed like the real game.<p>Now, with what has happened with memory chip prices, it almost seems like they got lucky (the Micron facility is doing commercial shipments now).<p>Obama used to talk about having "spooky" good luck. I think Modi has some of that too.
3/29/2026, 7:08:57 PM
by: il
Why isn't production scaling to meet demand? Shouldn't the market address this.
3/29/2026, 5:35:52 PM
by: red_admiral
Guess I'll find the old ones at the back of my cupboard for the time being ... oh wait. A 16MB SD card. Those were the days.
3/29/2026, 6:15:47 PM
by: whatever1
Who cares guys, soon food shortages will start. In Europe they started rationing fuels. In Australia gas stations are out of diesel.<p>We are trully doomed.
3/29/2026, 7:07:35 PM