I feel like we’re finally starting to get SSD prices close to HDD. Not to mention the capacity. I just saw an 8 TB Samsung for $300. That’s about $37 per TB. A bit more than twice that of most HDD. If we factor in size, power consumption, heat, and performance, that’s still a really good value! Anyone know of a good 5-12 bay enclosure haha.

And in the next couple years, we will likely see SSD in the 10-20 TB range. Hell, 20-50 TB should be plenty for a majority of data hoarder except for the most extreme. In fact, I think you can get most movies and shows in decent quality for around 100 TB. Unless you’re downloading just to be downloading to build that stash, then most will never approach that amount.

  • XOIIO@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 个月前

    I mean, yeah…

    You can even get 100TB SSD’s today, if you can afford to spend a years salary on it.

  • Aeristoka@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 个月前

    Good HDD sales dip to $12.50/TB or below, so that’s more than 3x the price of HDDs still.

  • FireZoneBlitz@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 个月前

    I just buy used SAS drives from eBay and have them in HP disk shelves. Super cheap and automated recovery with a spare drive and RAID setup.

  • FourDimensionalTaco@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 个月前

    From what I recall, SSDs are not suitable for long term offline storage, because the same quantum tunneling effect that makes flash memory work in the first place also leads to data corruption over time. So, you need to power these things regularly. Hard disks however can sit unpowered for quite some time. Does anybody know more?