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> Anyway, today there are only 3 kinds of secondary storage worth caring about: flash (sector granularity, but no seeks), cloud (like S3), and archive (like Gla
by anonymoushn 4y ago
> Anyway, today there are only 3 kinds of secondary storage worth caring about: flash (sector granularity, but no seeks), cloud (like S3), and archive (like Glacier).
We mostly read from spinning magnets attached to computers, since flash is expensive and cloud is expensive and slow. I guess this is true if you're fine with throwing away lots of money, but the question sort of presupposes that you are not.
- mgraczyk 4y agoThere is reason to believe that won't be true much longer, for example https://wikibon.com/qlc-flash-hamrs-hdd/ https://wikibon.com/qlc-flash-hamrs-hdd/ It's likely within the next 10 years HDDs will no longer be viable. In terms of TCO with replacement costs we may already be there.