This take is short-sighted. This same comment could be copy-pasted to 20 years ago when the first 1TB HDD was released. Of course it was stupid expensive. But now you would hardly glance at an HDD under 1TB. Technological progress is fast, and benefits consumers.
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
They can suck my dick and balls. None of this benefits the average consumer.
yabai@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Laser@feddit.org 3 days ago
It’s not their fault the average consumer doesn’t have a sizeable media library
Dojan@pawb.social 3 days ago
Since piracy is argued to be fair-use, we should all have sizable media libraries.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t get the responses disagreeing with you. Citing as-yet undefined needs of an AVERAGE consumer while completely disregarding that the people on Lemmy are far more tech-focused and that the average tech level of a consumer is that they can’t even turn the computer off and on again. Almost nobody needs such massive storage, it’s a very niche need. The vast majority would never run out with 1TB. I’ve got 3TB and a huge collection of music, movies and photos I’ve backed up and there’s still room to go. The clowns disagreeing with you are running an -arr stack and thinking “I could fill that…”
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
aimed at AI-scale data growth.
This is an important part that the responses glossed over.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
640kb ought to be enough for anyone, right?
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.
It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.
My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.
I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.