Re:Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November
by katbyte on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:46AM
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Because you need to store 100s of TBs?
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Re:Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November
by chefkoch on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:52AM
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And you can't this with zfs and the likes?
Re:Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November
by katbyte on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:15PM
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the $/Tb is far less with HDDs than SSDs and that doesn't show any sign of changing soon. HDD can go as low as 0.014$ per gb, while SSDs at their lowest are 0.070$ - 4x more storage for your $ and it also doesn't expire due to writes.
https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new,used&units=g...