• Cort@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Not yet, unless the higher capacity comes at a much lower price. HDDs are fine for the price currently

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      29 days ago

      it’ll be interesting to see what happens, but i’ve been hoping that at some point SSDs will simply hit a cost point that is lower, whereas HDDs won’t be able to go below that (due to physical tolerancing and complicated manufacturing) whereas with an SSD it’s literally just chips on a board. You put more of them on the board it has more storage, simple as that.

      Although i think before that, HDDs would likely become extremely competitive since they would actually be forced to lower cost some substantial amount.

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        29 days ago

        Although i think before that, HDDs would likely become extremely competitive since they would actually be forced to lower cost some substantial amount.

        I think you have it backwards. The SSD manufacturers are always going to see their product as better than HDD performance wise so they’ll likely always have a higher price per capacity.

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          29 days ago

          that’s possible, but idk. I don’t really see why i would want an 8TB ssd that can run at 4GB/s unless im literally a data center, so i think at some point the higher capacity ones are just going to have to be cheaper and more affordable. I.E. probably slower.