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Google reveals struggle to balance HDD and SSD use at scale (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is a matter of priorities. In my experience, while saving in financial costs, tiering between HDD and SSD frequently comes at great sanity/frustration cost for those maintaining it. It can make sense commercially if there's a team (internal or external) to take care of things going sideways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The point is that as long as HDDs are cheaper, they will definitely be used. SSDs are not replacing them in environments where latency isn't an issue.