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> My understanding from the video is that it's a write-once solution, If you have enough capacity, write-once is enough. Indeed, MLC SSDs can often be rewritt
by mlyle 3y ago
> My understanding from the video is that it's a write-once solution,
If you have enough capacity, write-once is enough. Indeed, MLC SSDs can often be rewritten a couple hundred times. Consumer HDDs are specified for 180TB written per year.
Would you rather have:
* A HDD that can store 22TB and can be written 180TB per year for 5 years until the helium leaks out (900TB total writes).
* A 10,000 TB storage cartridge that can initially store 10,000TB, but as you "erase" stuff the capacity falls.
The latter can tolerate 1,000 TB "erased" per year for 5 years and still store 5,000TB at the end.