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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Are now? Haven’t they been using flash first?

Hard drives suck for that work load. Their seek times are huge, their throughput is awful, and they’re worse storage density than HDDs. You can fit 24 2.5" ssds into a 2u server. 16TB in a 2.5" > 24TB in 3.5" SSDs were first to skyrocket in price vs HDDs.

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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No. AI companies have huge storage requirements for training data. Flash storage is not cost efficient for mass storage quantities.

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- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.
  
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  - EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Something tells me you’ve never worked for a massive company.
    
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    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    These aren’t massive companies. They’re startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)
    
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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
A"I" companies want to store petabytes of “good” training data

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- TehWorld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Exabytes. Petabytes are easily surpassed by a lot of companies these days.
  
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