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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's where I have a theory about when the hard drive market will collapse. A lot of networked drive setups have 4 drives on RAID 10. With SSDs, those can become 2 drive RAID1, and will be faster. That means SSDs can be 2x the cost to eliminate hard drives as a viable option for a very common use case.

That isn't too far away. Your next NAS upgrade cycle might be with SSDs.

[โ€“] dhorse 1 points 10 months ago

I don't see it in the next upgrade cycle (2 - 5 years). My data needs on a NAS are creeping into 50TB and 100TB at several different installations and unfortunately growing. Gigabit ethernet is my bottleneck not disk i/o.