Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters - eviltoast
His statement directly counters predictions that hard drives will die in five years
  • elscallr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    A 16TB, a single one, right now is $1800.

    As I said, as they become available (read: affordable) then I’ll use them. Until that point… mechanical drives have worked well for 50 years and are fine for me. I can accept a margin of problem, it’s the reason I use RAID.