Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoToshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenterswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down15
arrow-up1117arrow-down1external-linkToshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenterswww.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squarerab@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoI admin a datacenter and hard drives are never going anywhere. Same with tapes.
minus-squareEccitaze@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoI work tech support for a NAS company and the ratio of HDDs to SSDs is roughly 85-15. Sometimes people use SSDs for stuff that requires low latency, but most commonly they’re used as a cache for HDDs in my experience.
minus-squarepreasket@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoNot much point in using SSDs in a NAS if it’s there just for holding your files
minus-squareRedward@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIt’s going to the cloud. Soon as we find a way to store data in water
minus-squareMeron35@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoMicrosoft has already proven that underwater data centers are viable - they just need to scale up now Project Natick Phase 2 - https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
I admin a datacenter and hard drives are never going anywhere. Same with tapes.
I work tech support for a NAS company and the ratio of HDDs to SSDs is roughly 85-15. Sometimes people use SSDs for stuff that requires low latency, but most commonly they’re used as a cache for HDDs in my experience.
Not much point in using SSDs in a NAS if it’s there just for holding your files
It’s going to the cloud. Soon as we find a way to store data in water
Microsoft has already proven that underwater data centers are viable - they just need to scale up now
Project Natick Phase 2 - https://natick.research.microsoft.com/