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0 pointsmbreese2y ago0 comments

Spinning rust is still useful for many purposes and will probably live on for decades more. We generate a ton of data and most of it ends up as read rarely or never. But it can live with slower access times on longer duration storage.

It’s honestly just like tape. There will be an HDD market for a long time that will be hidden in the whirl of data centers. Consumer HDD will slowly melt away, but the price/byte and durability of disk will keep it viable for quite a while. It’s still faster than tape (but not as cheap).

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SoftTalker2y ago

> Consumer HDD will slowly melt away

I’d say it already has. Does any consumer PC come with a spinning disk anymore?

purpleflame12572y ago

Many consumer PCs will come with both a smaller capacity SSD and a higher-capacity HD.

bragr2y ago

Maybe 10 years ago, but I just checked Dell (for a single data point), and it looks like all their current laptops are SSD only, and for desktops, most configurations are SSD only, with only a handful of balls to wall storage configurations offering large multi-TB HDDs in addition to a SSD boot device.

Daishiman2y ago

With games weighing in at half a terabyte, they have to.

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