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I have hard drives which I only write to once - long term archive. I will gladly change them fro QLC/PLC storage if price is reasonable. There is a market for

• markhahn 3y ago
  that's the tape market I mentioned. agreed, tape doesn't fit the personal market, but it totally dominates anywhere that has scale. the question is: what counts as reliable? if PLC is good for 50 erasures, are you really comfortable with that? it's going to cost more than half of QLC, I assure you... the interesting thing about flash is that people want to use the speed. which means they put in places that have a high content-mutation rate. if it's just personal stuff - mostly cold, little mutation - that's fine but not the main market.
  • dist-epoch 3y ago
    There is a market for high speed read only data - S3 serving, and all kinds of mostly read database scenarios (OLAP). You can have tiered storage, data is first consolidated/updated on TLC drives, and as it ages is moved to PLC storage. RocksDB already supports something like this.