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I think with the pricing of cloud storage and photo, video and assets taking more and more space, the opposite is true. For example apple requires larger stora
by diffeomorphism 3y ago
I think with the pricing of cloud storage and photo, video and assets taking more and more space, the opposite is true.
For example apple requires larger storage to even use prores:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212832 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212832
Or Baldur's gate 3 takes 123GB of storage for the install.
- prmoustache 3y agoPeople swallow the cost because it is easier than migrating. My partner has made a lot of albums, tagging in google photos extensively. When her account reaches the free limit, I offered her to use google takeout and host her pictures in a local nextcloud instance but told her I didn't had immediate time to dig out if getting back tags and albums from google tameout's metadata was possible and she just grabbed her card details and subscribed to the drive expansion. Gamers are an exception, but gaming is a niche market. Most people using computers are using laptops with integrated intel gpu and never install any game.
- wtallis 3y ago> For example apple requires larger storage to even use prores: I don't think this is about capacity, but rather it's about performance: small SSDs are slower because they have fewer flash chips to write to in parallel. But that effect goes away as you move up to higher capacities and hit other bottlenecks; even high-end PCIe gen5 SSDs that are too power-hungry for anything other than desktops and servers reach full speed by 2TB.
- JuanPosadas 3y agoWell, you wouldn't normally try to put a 123GB game on Google drive.