Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000

• ravhall@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s the cost of greed.

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• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This isn’t bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Was that a 2280 M.2 drive?

    That’s what makes this bleeding edge since those drives are so tiny. 15tb in a 2.5" drive is nothing special.

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 …

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