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HDDs are becoming more expensive worldwide because AI is used too much.

The global hard disk market is facing a prolonged shortage after demand from data centers and AI systems has skyrocketed to excess capacity, especially enterprise-grade hard disks (Enterprise / Nearline HDDs) with 24 months of outstanding orders, resulting in an average price hike of 10-30% within a single year, mainly due to accelerated data center generation and Generative AI systems, requiring huge storage space for large-scale training and processing models.

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Major manufacturers Seagate and Western Digital agree that orders from major cloud segments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are steadily increasing, causing general user products to become in short supply. Factories have to divide their production power between HDD, DRAM, and NAND that have all been sucked into the AI market simultaneously, resulting in fewer existing stock reserves.

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This has led some operators to start using QLC SSDs (Quad-Level Cells) instead of hard disks in certain job categories, such as Cold Storage or Warm Storage, because the price per capacity is getting closer and current technology can better support large workloads, but the rapid increase in demand for QLC has resulted in NAND capacity being fully booked up to 2026, risking redundancy for both HDD and SSD.

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The impact on general users is that cost-effective hard disk and SSD prices are likely to rise. Some products may be in short supply or delayed delivery. At the same time, the crisis is a golden opportunity for Thailand, which is still the world's largest hard disk manufacturing base of more than 80%. Seagate and Western Digital are set to invest more than $39 billion to expand production and support global demand, reinforcing Thailand's role as a global hard disk manufacturing hub.

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2025/11/17 Edited to

... Read moreในช่วงเวลาที่ผ่านมา ภาวะขาดตลาดฮาร์ดดิสก์เกิดจากการเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็วของการใช้งานระบบ AI และดาต้าเซ็นเตอร์ที่ต้องการพื้นที่จัดเก็บข้อมูลจำนวนมหาศาลสำหรับการฝึกและประมวลผลโมเดลขนาดใหญ่ เช่น Generative AI ตลอดจนความต้องการจากบริการคลาวด์รายใหญ่ เช่น AWS, Microsoft Azure และ Google Cloud ที่เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างต่อเนื่อง ฮาร์ดดิสก์ประเภท Enterprise/Nearline HDD ได้รับผลกระทบมากที่สุดด้วยคำสั่งซื้อที่เพิ่มขึ้นจนทำให้เกิดคำสั่งซื้อค้างยาวนานถึง 24 เดือน ส่งผลให้ราคาเฉลี่ยฮาร์ดดิสก์ทั่วโลกขยับสูงขึ้นถึง 10-30% ภายในเวลาเพียงปีเดียว ความต้องการนี้ทำให้ผู้ผลิตต้องจัดสรรกำลังการผลิตระหว่าง HDD, DRAM และ NAND ที่ต่างก็นำไปใช้ในตลาด AI ด้วยเช่นกัน ในอีกมุมหนึ่ง ผู้ให้บริการบางรายเริ่มเปลี่ยนมาใช้ QLC SSD ซึ่งเป็นเทคโนโลยี SSD ที่ประหยัดค่าใช้จ่ายต่อพื้นที่จัดเก็บข้อมูลมากขึ้นในงานประเภท Cold Storage หรือ Warm Storage ทั้งนี้แม้ราคาจะใกล้เคียงกับ HDD แต่ความต้องการ NAND เพื่อผลิต QLC SSD ที่เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็ว กลับสร้างแรงกดดันต่อกำลังการผลิตและอาจทำให้เกิดปัญหาขาดแคลนซ้ำซ้อนในอนาคต สำหรับผู้ใช้ทั่วไป มีแนวโน้มที่จะเห็นราคาฮาร์ดดิสก์และ SSD รุ่นราคาคุ้มค่าปรับสูงขึ้น และอาจเจอปัญหาการขาดตลาดหรือจัดส่งล่าช้า จึงควรพิจารณาการเลือกซื้อและวางแผนล่วงหน้า ในด้านบวก ภาวะนี้สร้างโอกาสให้กับประเทศไทยซึ่งยังเป็นฐานการผลิตฮาร์ดดิสก์ใหญ่ของโลก โดย Seagate และ Western Digital วางแผนลงทุนเพิ่มกว่า 39,000 ล้านบาท เพื่อขยายกำลังผลิตและเสริมความแข็งแกร่งให้กับอุตสาหกรรมที่มีบทบาทสำคัญนี้ในตลาดโลก โดยภาพรวม ภาวะราคา HDD พุ่งและปัญหาขาดแคลนสะท้อนถึงการเปลี่ยนแปลงของเทคโนโลยีและตลาดที่ถูกเร่งด้วยการเติบโตของ AI และคลาวด์ยุคใหม่ ซึ่งผู้บริโภคควรติดตามข่าวสารและแนวโน้มอย่างใกล้ชิดเพื่อวางแผนการใช้งานและลงทุนที่เหมาะสมในอนาคต

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