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Maybe we don't need bigger drives? For installing software disk size has been irrelevant for some time - we always have space for software. Maybe after we have
by zby 10y ago
Maybe we don't need bigger drives? For installing software disk size has been irrelevant for some time - we always have space for software. Maybe after we have always space for films - then there is no other thing to fill up the disks?
- cm3 10y agoWhere do you store videos and music you work on? Where you do you store containers or vms or build artifacts for software development? Prices of SSDs have to come down at least 5 times to be in any way comparable (10x actually to match $/GB but 5x would be huge). We absolutely need bigger drives because we will have bigger files. Think video (4k, 8k, VR, HDR), archive of operating system images for development, data to use for ML, NixOS style immutable operating systems, all the data from your personal IoT gadgets. Readily available larger storage gives us many benefits: 1. requirement for OS stack to adapt (think ZFS) 2. doing things we wouldn't consider possible at home before 3. more complete backups with history By enabling new things for the masses, we enable the development of new stuff by people in their free time. Let's not mix tablet/phone use of storage with that of computers with keyboard+mice.