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SSD only became mainstream after 3D TLC was invented, bringing costs down. Planar MLC was okay but was still somewhat expensive, tech enthusiast thingy. So for

SSD only became mainstream after 3D TLC was invented, bringing costs down. Planar MLC was okay but was still somewhat expensive, tech enthusiast thingy. So for petrol, sure, if we just had as energy dense batterry as fossile fuels. No, current tech is not there yet. The big range vechiles are stupidly expensive, and the inexpensive ones are daily commuters only, mostly. They also charge slowly. Most people don't own multiple vechiles for different purposes, the primary purpose of personal vechile is utility and mobility. People get stuck in their personal bubbles and forget that for most people cars are actually a tool. For batteries, big range drops in winter, no solution for people living in apartments with no capability to "charge at home", high electricity prices at not "charge at home" places. Please don't bring in hydrogen here :) it's Toyota's pipe dream, not reallity. We really need 3D NAND flash of SSD moment for batteries, that would revolutionize a lot of industries, not just personal vechiles.

Dalewyn 3y ago
Even with SSDs, it's only laptops specifically that made a wholesale shift to SSDs. Why? Because laptops get jostled around, and SSDs are impervious to rough handling. Over in the land of desktops, servers, and other stationary computing installations, HDDs are still superior if you do not explicitly require (or want) the fast access speeds and latencies of SSDs which are oftentimes overkill for most use cases.
Scoundreller 3y ago
SSDs also had an inflection point when floods hit Thailand knocking out plants where a good chunk of spinning rust HD motors were made. Spinning drives exploded in price pushing people to accept a smaller but faster SSD and deal with it. > We observed the first uptick at the end of October, reaching its peak in the first week of November with price increases in the 80-190% range for desktop drives and 80-150% for mobile units. Although we're beginning to see price reductions across the board, on average drives are still about 60-90% more expensive than they were before the flooding. https://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-thai-floods/ https://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-th...
Nextgrid 3y ago
It doesn't help that greed means that even though electricity is everywhere and is the most fungible form of energy, we're putting arbitrary limitations to buying it, way more than gas/petrol despite the latter actually requiring significantly more infrastructure. With a gas car I am confident I can drive up to any gas station and get fuel with my credit card. I'm not confident I can do the same with electric cars - even if I do find a charge point, I'm worried it's not going to let me pay & charge until I download a stupid app, provide a ton of data to hundreds of data brokers and still remain stranded when all this mess of moving parts breaks down somewhere and doesn't let me proceed.

Dalewyn 3y ago

Even with SSDs, it's only laptops specifically that made a wholesale shift to SSDs. Why? Because laptops get jostled around, and SSDs are impervious to rough handling. Over in the land of desktops, servers, and other stationary computing installations, HDDs are still superior if you do not explicitly require (or want) the fast access speeds and latencies of SSDs which are oftentimes overkill for most use cases.

Scoundreller 3y ago

SSDs also had an inflection point when floods hit Thailand knocking out plants where a good chunk of spinning rust HD motors were made. Spinning drives exploded in price pushing people to accept a smaller but faster SSD and deal with it. > We observed the first uptick at the end of October, reaching its peak in the first week of November with price increases in the 80-190% range for desktop drives and 80-150% for mobile units. Although we're beginning to see price reductions across the board, on average drives are still about 60-90% more expensive than they were before the flooding. https://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-thai-floods/ https://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-th...

Nextgrid 3y ago

It doesn't help that greed means that even though electricity is everywhere and is the most fungible form of energy, we're putting arbitrary limitations to buying it, way more than gas/petrol despite the latter actually requiring significantly more infrastructure. With a gas car I am confident I can drive up to any gas station and get fuel with my credit card. I'm not confident I can do the same with electric cars - even if I do find a charge point, I'm worried it's not going to let me pay & charge until I download a stupid app, provide a ton of data to hundreds of data brokers and still remain stranded when all this mess of moving parts breaks down somewhere and doesn't let me proceed.