We've come a long way:
That was my first USB thumb drive.
IIRC that was 5 mb. It weighed about 2000 lbs
Fee-fi-fo-fum.
If you were to ask me a year ago I'd tell you that HDD's would be the next dead storage medium but now SSD's cost more then I spent on my rig and HDD's are pushing 140 TB's
I just looked up prices for servers we sell out work.
They saw a price increase of 47%.
The SSDs and RAM saw an increase of about 25% and ~150% respectively.
Absolutely ludicrous and BS (ironically both the price and available stock increased. So it's just preying on the market instead of an actual shortage lol)
I wonder if tapes make any sort of 'comeback' to the consumer market.
In a pinch the drive can also double as a flywheel battery.
with optimizations that significantly increase HDD performance for the AI and cloud era
Can somebody do anything with a normal consumer in mind these days? 😭
Not until somebody shuts off the investor money faucet for AI. Then they'll come crawling back — although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world's governments about wanting a bailout.
But hey, look at the bright side. We've already had the cryptocurrency mining boom and bust, and "AI" boom and soon to be bust. There's still time for some idiot to invent the next tech scam fad which will conveniently require a shitload of hardware for no recognizably useful purpose.
Then they’ll come crawling back — although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world’s governments about wanting a bailout.
And don't forget the part where, whether they get a bailout or not, they'll still have to double the prices of everything to make up for all the money they lost on that stupid AI bubble exploding in their face (which all of us are somehow to blame for, obviously, which is why we have to pay them back for it)
No, and it's by design.
You're gonna lease a tablet and use cloud-based storage services and like it.
The dystopia is here.
Hp is doing laptop rental for non-commercial customers only.
And how much will that cost? Sounds like something fantastic for my Jellyfin server. I’ll have all the 4k HDR I can get my hands on.
I would not put 130TB on any one piece of hardware, because when it fails, it will be a very sad day.
Don’t even mention it. I have real world experience in that area 😂
That's why this is perfect for a distributed array or as a data mass grave.
You don't really store anything in there that is needed often.
Guess why (deep-)archive S3 is so much cheaper than hot S3 storage.
That's a reason why.
This hardware is for those who are storing EB of data.
Going by the usual trends of $20+/tb, I'd say. fuckin expensive
Very cheap. Just kidding. Fuck that shit
If you have to ask, you can't afford it 😭
Maybe I can. The only thing you know about me is my username 😂
Okay cool, cool, so does this mean ridiculous data centers will use these things, and then can I get another 4TB RED for my NAS so I can fit my whole life on a mirrored total of 8TB without paying 8x what it's worth, please?
Thaaaaanks...
Does the increased density mean that the speed also goes up? It would be nice if a 7200 RPM drive could finally saturate SATA3 bandwidth.
I just hope smaller sized drives become cheaper. The word "hope" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Ten years from now...
Amazon search: "hard drive"
Result: 4TB $198
Whats the point when the prices for 4-8TB disks are stable the last 5 years? (I think that they are getting higher even...)
The point is the need for more and more data storage is never going to stop.
Yep. It's absurd. Who spends that much on a 4TB?
The point is that 8TB are too small, and not enough for my anime.
"Anime"
Ya hmar
Holy fuck can you imagine how long it would take to re-stripe a failed drive in a z2 array 😭
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