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The rise in drive prices is being driven by AI and even HDDs can't hide
The article discusses the rising prices of storage solutions, particularly Solid State Drives (SSDs), driven in part by the demand from Artificial Intelligence applications. While SSDs offer advantages, the increasing costs are making Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) a more sensible option in certain scenarios.
17 years ago, one engineer made a very important discovery: If you shout at data centre HDDs, they slow down
An engineer named Brendan Gregg discovered 17 years ago that shouting at Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) can increase their latency due to vibration. This phenomenon affects HDDs but not Solid State Drives (SSDs). The discovery was shared by Bryan Cantrill in a 2008 YouTube video and is relevant to data center operations.
SATA drives are still going strong as Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs
Kingston has announced it has shipped 100 million units of its A400 SATA SSD since its launch in 2017. Despite the rise of faster M.2 NVMe drives, SATA SSDs like the A400 continue to offer significant performance improvements over traditional hard disk drives, particularly in game load times, making them a relevant and cost-effective storage solution for many users.
Seagate's new FireCuda X Vault is a slow but solid way to beat the SSD price crisis
Seagate's FireCuda X Vault is a large external hard disk drive offering 8 or 20 TB of storage, ideal for gamers seeking to expand their library capacity, especially on laptops. While significantly slower than SSDs and requiring specific USB port power and speed, its cost-effectiveness per gigabyte makes it a solid option for cold storage, though desktop users might prefer internal HDDs.
A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a…
A user reported issues with a failed enterprise Hard Disk Drive from Toshiba, which would only offer a refund of the original purchase price instead of the current, higher replacement cost. This situation highlights the rising costs of storage solutions, including SSDs due to AI industry demand, and the potential unreliability of HDDs with moving parts.
