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Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What are you talking about?

My laptop SSD is 2tb and I got it 3 years ago.

[–] Peffse -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One step above what I had back in 2012? What exactly does that say about progress in capacity?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's twice the amount you were complaining about, and there are bigger drives than the one I have.

Edit: I just realized he's probably talking about being stuck on 1tb compared to when we had 1gb drives. Then we had 100gb drives, then 500gb, then 1tb. He's probably commenting on why we don't have 100tb+ drives yet.

That's all I can think of, and my response would simply be there are diminishing returns to the exponential growth of hardware.

[–] Peffse 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

exactly. Thank you.

Back in 2012 an affordable $40 flash drive was 1GB. Now $40 gets you a 512GB.

$90 would have netted you a 2GB full-size SD card. Now you get a 1TB MicroSD with adapter

$80 would get you 1TB in spinning rust in 2012... now, with $80 you get... 1TB or if you stretch the budget a little, 2TB. But what if you own a bunch of games like Ark Survival Evolved that take up 435GB of space? Shell out $649

Back when I bought the 1TB, I installed the entire steam library I owned onto it. Now I can't get more than 6-7 new titles installed. I'm ignoring how insanely fast drives have gotten over the years, but my complaint is storage.

EDIT: For the sake of comparison outside my complaint of SSD sizing, spinning rust at $80 today is just 4TB at a lower 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm.