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Spinning rust side is only living because of price collusion by the flash vendors. Price for 8TB of TLC generic is currently 170 USD. QLC is cheaper than that.
by SSLy 3y ago
Spinning rust side is only living because of price collusion by the flash vendors. Price for 8TB of TLC generic is currently 170 USD. QLC is cheaper than that.
- dehrmann 3y agoThat's actually a valid reason to spin off a business, especially if you happen to know you'll cross the inflection point in ~5 years. It isn't the same as the "legacy liabilities" game, though. Some investors want the growth business, some want the stable business, some want a cheaply-priced declining business (seriously; look into anything that pays royalties).
- mbreese 3y agoSpinning rust is still useful for many purposes and will probably live on for decades more. We generate a ton of data and most of it ends up as read rarely or never. But it can live with slower access times on longer duration storage. It’s honestly just like tape. There will be an HDD market for a long time that will be hidden in the whirl of data centers. Consumer HDD will slowly melt away, but the price/byte and durability of disk will keep it viable for quite a while. It’s still faster than tape (but not as cheap).
- SoftTalker 3y ago> Consumer HDD will slowly melt away I’d say it already has. Does any consumer PC come with a spinning disk anymore?
- purpleflame1257 3y agoMany consumer PCs will come with both a smaller capacity SSD and a higher-capacity HD.
- bragr 3y agoMaybe 10 years ago, but I just checked Dell (for a single data point), and it looks like all their current laptops are SSD only, and for desktops, most configurations are SSD only, with only a handful of balls to wall storage configurations offering large multi-TB HDDs in addition to a SSD boot device.
- Daishiman 3y agoWith games weighing in at half a terabyte, they have to.