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Spinning rust is still by far the cheapest way to store bulk data, and it is fast enough for infrequent access. It's perfectly fine for archival purposes. Large
by crote 4y ago
Spinning rust is still by far the cheapest way to store bulk data, and it is fast enough for infrequent access. It's perfectly fine for archival purposes. Large disks are $0.02 / GB while large SSDs are closer to $0.07 / GB.
On the other hand, ignoring my media collection, both my personal computer and server only need a few hundred GB of storage. SSDs are cheap enough that they are a no-brainer: they are physically a lot smaller, quieter, and more resilient. The orders-of-magnitude better IO speed doesn't hurt either, even if most of it is wasted on me.
1TB NVMe drives are now less than $75. I could get a 1TB HDD for $40 or a 3TB one for $75, but why bother?
- mmis1000 4y agoEven 2TB SSDs can be bought at < $130 now. Plus the fact that consumer motherboard usually have 2 m.2 slot. You can have 4TB of ultra fast storage on a normal consumer level computer without pcie extension cards. Which is overkill for most people. Most consumers probably don't even need that much storage space.
- kragen 4y agountil they start shooting video or finetuning stable diffusion or something video and archived neural net snapshots are pretty sequential
- mmis1000 4y agoI don't think you need nvme ssd just to play video. For that kind of usage. SATA ssd is good enough. And neural net snapshots...? Do most people even do AIs?
- kragen 4y agoyeah, that's what i'm saying about video, raw capacity matters more than bandwidth, and below the 100ms level, random seek latency hardly matters at all for video right now most people don't use neural net snapshots but 25 years ago most people didn't use 3-d rendering, encryption, or video codecs either