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The mechanical HDD space is weird. There have been like ten (or fifteen?) years of "HAMR/MAMR in two to three years" and one to two years of "HAMR/MAMR are actu
by ahartmetz 1y ago
The mechanical HDD space is weird. There have been like ten (or fifteen?) years of "HAMR/MAMR in two to three years" and one to two years of "HAMR/MAMR are actually shipping now!" - but I still don't see them in stores. These technologies only seem to barely increase capacities for now, and price per TB hasn't decreased in three years. It's not looking too good for mechanical drives.
OTOH, I got a Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB m.2 SSD for 170€ or so...
- alephnerd 1y ago> I still don't see them in stores These are targeted at private cloud or DC use-cases, not really consumer use-cases. I doubt most consumers are building their own servers.
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agoHDDs are getting increasingly squeezed between SSD and tape. In the past decade or so, HDDs have gone from in ~95% of consumer computers to probably <5% (extreme low end and extreme high end). they're still common in servers, but the reduced customer marketshare means manufacturers no longer care about getting the new tech to consumers. All their sales are to enterprise.
- brador 1y agoStorage is a duopoly. Price fixing for profiteering. Just like GPUs. There are others too but I trade them so my public list ends here.