Maybe its just me buying “old” technology like the 24-core threadripper but how are y’alls putting more than 128GB in your mobos?

At home 32 to 64GiB is plenty. For the data center I generally order 384GiB now. It varies depending on use case.

So what I am hearing is that I need to start buying server and not desktop motherboards.

128GB isn’t that much when running multiple VMs with PCIe passthrough and docker apps in the background, but its all my little asus x399 board can handle… or any x399 board it seems.

I rarely run more than one VM at home at a time. Hosting multiple VMs what the big iron is for.

Dumb question. Why should someone ever buy a HDD nowadays?

HDD is still the superior way to store data compared to ssd’s. Ssd’s are great for accessing your data fast but for people who have a lot of data they don’t access regularly the reliability and price of an HDD is unbeatable.

16TB 7200 RPM the same price as a 2TB NVME.

Do you want 2TB super fast or 16TB that still can transfer at decent speeds?

The answer is yes.

This will blow your mind, but datacenters still buy tapes. It’s just stupid cheap. In the future, chemical storage by DNA or something similar might play the same role for cold storage.

I don’t get why we research DNA as storage.

It is sensible as fuck, deteriorates quickly, is slow to write and read…

Only advantage it’s bio-compatibility

The information density is insane, both volumetric and by mass.

I sort of agree, though. With current methods it seems like it would probably be just as easy to record information in a synthetic polymer.

Enterprise 5400 RPM drives for NAS are cheap/quiet/reliable

Because I can’t afford 120TB in SSDs…

They’re great for a NAS, where the priority is high capacity and low cost, over high performance and high cost of SSDs for comparable capacity.

@Chev @produnis

As the other guy said, because they are way cheaper. I use them for media storage.

For 20tb of hard drive storage, you could expect to spend ~$400 (probably less these days), but the same price will get you a 5th that on ssds (maybe more these days)

If you are streaming video, hard drive read speeds are good enough.

Still cheaper, i use them for large volumes of data that isn’t read or written that often

This made me chuckle aloud.

Builds a high end gaming pc. Nice nice. Can’t wait to try out those new games everyone’s talking about. “Plays classic wow”

Laughs in openxcom after buying a gaming laptop

Only time I ever ran TinyCore was on my 486 DX2/66

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