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I think we can agree to disagree here for the most part. It was an interesting discussion. I do think there is a market for another type of volitile storage i
by bhouston 8y ago
I think we can agree to disagree here for the most part.
It was an interesting discussion. I do think there is a market for another type of volitile storage in PCs as long as DDR prices stay sky high as they are now, faster than SSD and slower than DDR4, and much cheaper than DDR4, close to the prices of SSD and with much higher read-write capabilities.
The problem with SSDs is their limited read-write count I guess as their cost are actually sort of excellent these days.
With regards to hard drives I actually follow backblaze's lead, thus it is received knowledge. They tend to buy the largest drives they can that are not premium priced:
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
- mmt 8y agoWell, the market certainly agrees with you..there has never, to my knowledge, been anything like what I describe, other than for trivial capacities. > With regards to hard drives I actually follow backblaze's lead, thus it is received knowledge. They tend to buy the largest drives they can that are not premium priced This is completely valid for comparable use cases (which I think are vanishingly rare.. usually, performance matters). Their data is, of course, invaluable to the tech community at large (and potentially an annoyance to drive manufacturers).