• Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The HAMR/MAMR are exactly what I’m talking about. It is obviously unproven, but you can get new 20/22tb CMR HDDs now for 17.5¢ per GB very regularly, not counting sales. They’re what I’m currently running, and the normal price has dropped something close to 20% in the last year alone.

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      1 year ago

      HAMR is still not out, but will be 30+TB. We’ve had 20+TB drives for a long time. They’ve been plateaud there for a while.

      Price per GB hasn’t really been coming down much on CMR/SMR.

      Which was my point. Until HAMR is in use and at mass production, storage costs haven’t really come down.