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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters(www.tomshardware.com)

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dhorse@lemmy.world
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It’s criminal that some computers are still sold with mechanical hard drives, but I will still be using them in NAS for years to come. The right technology for the right job.

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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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I only use them in my NAS because I keep ending up with spare ones.

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frezik@midwest.social
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That’s where I have a theory about when the hard drive market will collapse. A lot of networked drive setups have 4 drives on RAID 10. With SSDs, those can become 2 drive RAID1, and will be faster. That means SSDs can be 2x the cost to eliminate hard drives as a viable option for a very common use case.

That isn’t too far away. Your next NAS upgrade cycle might be with SSDs.

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I don’t see it in the next upgrade cycle (2 - 5 years). My data needs on a NAS are creeping into 50TB and 100TB at several different installations and unfortunately growing. Gigabit ethernet is my bottleneck not disk i/o.

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