• 1 Nut November@sh.itjust.works
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      16TB 7200 RPM the same price as a 2TB NVME.

      Do you want 2TB super fast or 16TB that still can transfer at decent speeds?

      The answer is yes.

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      Still cheaper, i use them for large volumes of data that isn’t read or written that often

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      This will blow your mind, but datacenters still buy tapes. It’s just stupid cheap. In the future, chemical storage by DNA or something similar might play the same role for cold storage.

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        I don’t get why we research DNA as storage.

        It is sensible as fuck, deteriorates quickly, is slow to write and read…

        Only advantage it’s bio-compatibility

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          The information density is insane, both volumetric and by mass.

          I sort of agree, though. With current methods it seems like it would probably be just as easy to record information in a synthetic polymer.

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      They’re great for a NAS, where the priority is high capacity and low cost, over high performance and high cost of SSDs for comparable capacity.

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      HDD is still the superior way to store data compared to ssd’s. Ssd’s are great for accessing your data fast but for people who have a lot of data they don’t access regularly the reliability and price of an HDD is unbeatable.