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>I'm suspect there would be a market for storage devices with twice the volume and 50% or more storage. With your extreme example, I doubt it. Already you can
by boomboomsubban 6y ago
>I'm suspect there would be a market for storage devices with twice the volume and 50% or more storage.
With your extreme example, I doubt it. Already you can get two drives of 75% of the capacity for just a bit more money, and that would perform far better than one drive of twice the volume.
- sitkack 6y agoI wouldn't look at current drive economics to determine that a slight increase in platter size wouldn't enable more storage at a lower incremental cost. The current form factors are baked in, how would we know what the free variables are?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI think their example of 50% more storage at 2x the volume would need to be a fair amount cheaper than the comparison drive to be considered. I'm unsure what the economics would be, but even at the same price as the comparison drive there wouldn't be a ton of interest.
- pixl97 6y agoI think you're neglecting that the biggest issue in datacenter density is power usage.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI may be completely wrong, so feel free to correct me, but isn't that largely from cooling? I'm unclear how much larger hard drives would help, I'm not sure if it's obvious either.