Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because we don’t have to pack it in too much. It’d be higher capacities for cheaper for consumers

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  • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not the packaging that costs money or limits us, it’s the chips themselves. If we crammed a 3.5” form factor full of flash storage, it would be far outside the budgets of mortals.

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    • earphone843@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You could make the chips bigger, which should be cheaper to produce.

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      • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Nope. Larger chips, lower yields in the fab, more expensive. This is why we have chiplets in our CPUs nowadays. Production cost of chips is superlinear to size.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Skill issue

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