▲ 551 ▼ Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead (www.tweaktown.com) submitted 8 months ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 105 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world -20 points 8 months ago (9 children) Who is still using HDD these days? permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] fif-t@fedia.io 26 points 8 months ago Anyone who needs mass storage, that doesn't need it at high speed, and don't want to pay like $100/TB for it. Most HDDs are like $20/TB, give or take. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago HDD is still good for backups. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* How much for 100TB of drives $1500 How much for 100TB of NVME $10,000 Yes I still use hard drives in my threadripper servers and NAS. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TheOneCurly@feddit.online 8 points 8 months ago My 20TB zfs mirrored NAS. I'm not buying 40TB of ssds in this economy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago HDDs are great for self-hosted apps. I own a NAS with three WD 16TB HHDs amd 2M. 2 SSDs. permalink fedilink source parent [–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 child) Such a naive take permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 0 points 8 months ago It's not a "take", it's a question permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago I do, I didn't really need to spend 3-4x the money for my server storage and regular HDDs are fast enough for media streaming. 6x18tb would've been unnecessarily expensive as SSDs permalink fedilink source parent [–] mackwinston@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago Backblaze, for one (remote backup and storage service). They buy masses of spinning rust drives to provide large amounts of remote storage at low prices. (They also publish reliability statistics, and do a quarterly report on reliability of various drive types, which is useful). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fif-t@fedia.io 26 points 8 months ago Anyone who needs mass storage, that doesn't need it at high speed, and don't want to pay like $100/TB for it. Most HDDs are like $20/TB, give or take. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago HDD is still good for backups. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* How much for 100TB of drives $1500 How much for 100TB of NVME $10,000 Yes I still use hard drives in my threadripper servers and NAS. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheOneCurly@feddit.online 8 points 8 months ago My 20TB zfs mirrored NAS. I'm not buying 40TB of ssds in this economy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago HDDs are great for self-hosted apps. I own a NAS with three WD 16TB HHDs amd 2M. 2 SSDs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 child) Such a naive take permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 0 points 8 months ago It's not a "take", it's a question permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 0 points 8 months ago It's not a "take", it's a question permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago I do, I didn't really need to spend 3-4x the money for my server storage and regular HDDs are fast enough for media streaming. 6x18tb would've been unnecessarily expensive as SSDs permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mackwinston@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago Backblaze, for one (remote backup and storage service). They buy masses of spinning rust drives to provide large amounts of remote storage at low prices. (They also publish reliability statistics, and do a quarterly report on reliability of various drive types, which is useful). permalink fedilink source parent