Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 day agoWell, 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 20 hours 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
So you want to be a hero!!! I only ever played the first one but fell in love with it.
Erana’s Peace. hidengoseke. Meep’s Peep, my friend.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
the second was the best in the series, but they all have their charm. i really need to buy the new game the coles made
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Link please? (New game)