Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoToshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenterswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1232arrow-down112
arrow-up1220arrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareChobbes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoLower power usage and smaller and maaaaaaaaybe better reliability. I’d probably do it if it was cost competitive… but it’s not yet.
minus-squareEccitaze@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoSmaller doesn’t matter if they’re going in a 3.5" tray. There are some models that only come with 2.5" trays, but go figure, the only 2.5" model that isn’t a 5-figure all-flash enterprise-scale model is one of our least popular models
Lower power usage and smaller and maaaaaaaaybe better reliability. I’d probably do it if it was cost competitive… but it’s not yet.
Smaller doesn’t matter if they’re going in a 3.5" tray. There are some models that only come with 2.5" trays, but go figure, the only 2.5" model that isn’t a 5-figure all-flash enterprise-scale model is one of our least popular models