so you say, but people still collect “antique” hardware.
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AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 day agoI think ten years from now you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone even wasting their time on something so small.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, retro etc. but I wouldn’t consider this to be that. There’s no inherent value of a run-of-the-mill drive with merely lower storage capacity. And certainly not worth a premium.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
it’s not antique yet. i still have my 5.25" diskettes with quest for glory 2 on them and they’re almost antique. give them another couple years.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It depends. For anything going into space, especially microsats, the biggest concerns are space, weight, and power. SSDs are better at all of those, plus they don’t have any gyroscopic effects, and they’re much less susceptible to vibrations (e.g. the absolute earthquake at liftoff and the sudden jolts during each rocket stage). They are more susceptible to high-energy particles, but they can be hardened through shielding and parity/redundancy.
For a datacenter on Mars, you’re less concerned with SWaP, only as much as you need to be to get it there as cargo. Obviously that means space and weight are still concerns, but not power.
The other factor with using fewer larger drives is that when you have a failure, you lose a lot more data, and any recovery takes longer.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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Supervisor194@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kind of the point of my comment was that drive size/cost is stagnating despite the massive technical progress in the space. I bought my first 4TB drive in 2020 ($89). Going back to 2015, I was buying 2TB at the same price ($86). Here in 2026, what’s the ~same price? 4TB ($99). 8TB is $180.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Well this is not a tech issue at all, it’s the fact that global economics have become a dumpster fire - particularly, in America. I can’t say I’m certain there are no other factors, but economically everything has gotten out of hand.