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

• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hard drives have longer shelf life than unpowered SSD. HDD are a good middle ground between SSD speeds, tape drive stability, and price they won’t go anywhere. The data world exists in tiers

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  • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The flaw with hard drives comes with large pools. The recovery speed is simply too slow when a drive fails, unless you build huge pools. So you need additional drives for more parity.

    I don’t know who cares about shelf life. Drives spin all their lives, which is 5-10 years. Use M-Disk or something if you want shelf life.

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• pineapplepizza@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s all circumstantial.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Right up until an EMP wipes out all our data. I still maintain that we should be storing all our data on vinyl, doing it physically is the only guarantee.

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  • patatahooligan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Microsoft has project Silica where they store data in glass. Being electromagnetic field-proof is one of the stated goals.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a WORM medium though, so really purely for storage. Which is still extremely useful of course.

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