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For 50Tb? I'm not one to question anyone's data hoarding, but I just can't imagine needing silence or random access on 50Tb, at least not enough to justify 5x p
by ravi-delia 4y ago
For 50Tb? I'm not one to question anyone's data hoarding, but I just can't imagine needing silence or random access on 50Tb, at least not enough to justify 5x prices. By all means, give me 5Tb in my laptop at lightning speed, I'll pay through the nose for it. But in bulk? I can't imagine wanting to spend thousands when hundreds will do.
- Beached 4y agoprice isn't the only thing to consider. speed and density matter too. if I have 1pb of storage across 10 servers on hdds, the networking cost will be much higher than 1pb across 2 servers on ssds, and will the retrieval times. when speed and density are considering factors, ssds make sense. when I needed 1.2pb of data fully searchable with retrieval times under 3s (across the entire data set, or huge portions.like half or quarter of the data), hdd wasn't even on the table. but we did use hdd for off-site backups of the data in case we hit a huge shtf scenario.