guyrocket@kbin.social 10 months ago
I just bought a microcenter brand 1 TB SSD for less than $50. Can a HDD compete with that on price and read/write speed?
Also recently bought a gaming PC that does not have a HD, only a 1 TB SSD.
I think HDDs day as boot drives is over. Unless they get a lot faster which I think is unlikely.
HDDs are certainly useful for larger amounts of storage, though. Self hosting, data centers, etc.
The last set of NAS drives I bought for my home server were ~$120 for 8TB, and while random access may not quite measure up, I’d put them up against your $50 Inland white-label drive for sustained R/W any day of the week, especially the SSD’s cache is saturated.
There’s absolutely still a case to be made for mechanical drives in near-line storage, and that’s not likely to change for quite a few years yet.
Nobody is buying $50 drives for a datacenter. What matters here is how this compares with 16TB+ sizes.
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My NAS device has 80TB of usable space (6x16TB, raid5). Equivalent would’ve cost tens of thousands of dollars in drives alone.
Once 16TB SSDs are even available I will probably start migrating them in, but for now mechanical drives it is.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
A 4TB SATA SSD is 200 EUR. For 96 TB you would need 24 (probably less for 80TB usable). It would cost between 4k and 4.5k. Prices are going down fast.
netburnr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And a way to have that many drives connected at once, which means more cost.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Ok, like 100 bucks for 16-18 SATA controllers, assuming the mobo comes with 6.
JGrffn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
5 20tb HDDs in raid5, for about 1.2-1.5k
WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 10 months ago
But how much is 5 100TB HDDs?
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
I have seen nowhere near 250-300 for 20TB disks in Europe. Maybe in the US the SSDs will also be cheaper…
WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 10 months ago
If you're able to get enterprise ssds, you could get 16tb ssds... But no clue what minimum order sizes are like for that kind of thing. But of you wanted to use 16tb ssds instead of buying a house 100% down payment, that's an option probably.
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A 16TB, a single one, right now is $1800.
As I said, as they become available (read: affordable) then I’ll use them. Until that point… mechanical drives have worked well for 50 years and are fine for me. I can accept a margin of problem, it’s the reason I use RAID.
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And this isn’t an enterprise thing. It’s my home NAS. For business things I just use AWS like any sensible person.