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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 102 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (23 children)

Haven't hard drives been cheaper per storage amount than SSDs forever? The problem was always that they were slow. I think tape may still be cheaper per storage amount than hard drives, but the speed is abysmal.

Edit: yeah looks like tape is 3x to 4x cheaper than hard drives https://corodata.com/tape-backups-still-used-today

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's criminal that some computers are still sold with mechanical hard drives, but I will still be using them in NAS for years to come. The right technology for the right job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I only use them in my NAS because I keep ending up with spare ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's where I have a theory about when the hard drive market will collapse. A lot of networked drive setups have 4 drives on RAID 10. With SSDs, those can become 2 drive RAID1, and will be faster. That means SSDs can be 2x the cost to eliminate hard drives as a viable option for a very common use case.

That isn't too far away. Your next NAS upgrade cycle might be with SSDs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't see it in the next upgrade cycle (2 - 5 years). My data needs on a NAS are creeping into 50TB and 100TB at several different installations and unfortunately growing. Gigabit ethernet is my bottleneck not disk i/o.

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