Work for one of the largest and we literally finished phasing out tape this year lol.
rab@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I admin a datacenter and hard drives are never going anywhere. Same with tapes.
guacupado@lemmy.world 9 months ago
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In favor of what? Spinning rust, or some other media for archival backups?
Redward@yiffit.net 9 months ago
It’s going to the cloud. Soon as we find a way to store data in water
Meron35@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Microsoft has already proven that underwater data centers are viable - they just need to scale up now
Project Natick Phase 2 - natick.research.microsoft.com
Eccitaze@yiffit.net 9 months ago
I work tech support for a NAS company and the ratio of HDDs to SSDs is roughly 85-15. Sometimes people use SSDs for stuff that requires low latency, but most commonly they’re used as a cache for HDDs in my experience.
preasket@lemy.lol 9 months ago
Not much point in using SSDs in a NAS if it’s there just for holding your files
Chobbes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lower power usage and smaller and maaaaaaaaybe better reliability. I’d probably do it if it was cost competitive… but it’s not yet.
mihies@kbin.social 9 months ago
Not sure whether adding more power consuming devices results in less power consumption, though. I guess it depends on drives power usage and files use.
Eccitaze@yiffit.net 9 months ago
Smaller doesn’t matter if they’re going in a 3.5" tray. There are some models that only come with 2.5" trays, but go figure, the only 2.5" model that isn’t a 5-figure all-flash enterprise-scale model is one of our least popular models
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If the NAS supports tiered storage, you benefit from high I/O performance for things like video editing.
My home storage is a NAS connected over 10GbE, I never bothered trying to play games off of it, but I’ll bet they’d run great. Read & write over the network at 10 gigabit is faster on a machine with (separate) RAID arrays of SSDs and HDDs than internal SATA3 connectivity which is kind of bonkers for a home user. Plus that has virtual machines and cloud backups running on the NAS side.