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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] Empyreus 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most super computer systems have been doing away with hhds for the speed and energy efficiency causing ssds and tape to be the two forms of storage.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Being in an HPC-adjacent field, can confirm.

Looking forward to LTO10, which ought to be not far away.

The majority of what we've got our eye on for FY '24 are SSD systems, and I expect in '25 it'll be everything.