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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Amazon is using trucks to ship hard drives for the largest data transfers. It's more efficient than doing it over internet. They also offer a service where they will put the data you want in a drive, mail it to you, and after you're done, you send the drive back.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Microsoft Azure Data Box Disk is also available.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox/data-box-disk-overview