Re:Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint
by reginald78 on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:04AM
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Not disputing your broader point necessarily, but don't hard drives also include memory for cache while dram cache has become less and less common on SSDs? (to point where it is now uncommon on new SSD devices)
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Re:Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint
by PaulKeeble on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:15AM
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Yes they do. A consumer HDD from Seagate seems to have about 512MB whereas an SSD from Samsung seems to use 2GB.