Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterpriseswww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down14
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minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·24 hours agoI’m about to build a home server with a lot of storage (relatively, around 6 or 8 times 12 TB as a ballpark), and I didn’t even consider anything other than spinning drives so far.
minus-squarenucleative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 hours agoBecause spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-223 hours agoEspecially for large sizes. Also speed isn’t really much of an issue on a domestic network.
I’m about to build a home server with a lot of storage (relatively, around 6 or 8 times 12 TB as a ballpark), and I didn’t even consider anything other than spinning drives so far.
Because spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
Especially for large sizes. Also speed isn’t really much of an issue on a domestic network.