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> Western Digital ships about a million helium-sealed drives every month. I'm surprised that there was such demand for spinning disks, I would have thought SDD
by Towaway69 2y ago
> Western Digital ships about a million helium-sealed drives every month.
I'm surprised that there was such demand for spinning disks, I would have thought SDDs would have replaced them all.
I say ‚was‘ as the article is from 2021.
- ricardobeat 2y agoSSDs are still too expensive for high volume storage. Enterprise purchases will be much lower, but as a consumer you can buy a 12TB helium-sealed HDD for $100-$200, while solid state alternatives don’t even reach that capacity in a single unit and cost 5-10x more.
- Towaway69 2y agoThanks for the explanation, I didn’t realise that was the case.