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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This is how I know I'm getting old, my first thought was "spinning rust for always on long term storage" and then I remembered it's 2025 and SSD's are about equal now.

Get off my lawn, your interrupting Matlock!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Still cheaper though. 4TB you are looking at around 3x the price for it in SSD storage. Although I wonder how the power use compares, might be worth factoring in but probably isn't too massive over it's realistic lifespan

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, I run spinning rust in my nas. All data storage for me is on HDDs, only OS date is on the SSD. That's for the nas and my computer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    My main data usage is game installs and pretty unimportant temporary stuff so it doesn't need backup fortunately. Game saves do of course but a simple bash script and the file size for that is tiny in comparison.

    SSD performance would be nice to have, but costs extra.

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