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With this tiered storage, you can store older data on HDDs - 80% cheaper than SSDs - without the hassle of traditional migrations.
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Technology we could rely on in the last century.
It started with Winchester Drive then the MFM & the RLL drives, which needed manual parking & low level formatting.
Later it became the three and a half inch hard drive.
On my Amiga computers the Fujitsu HDDs spun at a dizzying 10,000 RPM
The Fujitsu is an Ultra Wide 68 pins SCSI HDD, with a transfer speed so high my Amiga never had to wait for data from the drive.
AI ruins everything yet again!
Western Digital Has Reportedly Bid Farewell To The SSD Market; SanDisk Will Now Be Responsible For Existing & Future Products
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-reportedly-bid-farewell-to-the-ssd-market/
Its alive!!!
My 2TB portable #HDD that died earlier this week has now been repaired (by myself 
).
The internal #SATA to #USB3 interface went ping.
I got a new, not like for like, replacement and with the help of a hacksaw, some snips and electrical tape it had been brought back to life.
The new SATA interface is a generic one that should work with any 2.5 internal HDD so I needed to cut a bit off the original portable HHD case.
Nice fix which only cost me £3.99 GBP and 15 minutes of my time.
Behold the true power of voice coil actuators!
That's a late-1990s hard disk drive head seeking around. Real-time; video is not sped up. That's how incredibly fast and precise they are.
@mavica_again @cstross @NF6X also lets be clear, @NanoRaptor does "Premium" #Shitpost|s or rather "#NextLevel #Memes" to the point that I'd not be surprised if she makes a #NeoFloppy / #Jaz / #Zip mashup and showcases a nonexistant "vintage" portable SSD with like old #ROM chips or #RAM chips...
But #WhatIf it did?
Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hard-disk-fraud-Increasing-evidence-of-origin-in-China-10269059.html
#ycombinator #China #Festplatten #HDD #Kriminalität #Seagate
Mit GenAI Pod hat Pure Storage sein Angebot an Speichersystemen für KI ausgebaut. Diese Full-Stack-Lösung ermöglicht schlüsselfertige Lösungen für GenAI-Anwendungen und die automatisierte Bereitstellung von Nvidia NeMo- und NIM-Mikrodiensten. 
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10269647?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
So I just bought a new 4TB #Seagate mechanical USB #HDD to backup both my laptops and upgrade to #Debian #trixie.
When I bought my first *new* hard drive in high-school (in the early-mid 90's), prices were about $1/MB which means my latest drive would have cost just over four [edit ] million dollars after tax.
I always think I have a grasp of exponential progress in #computing until I compare my latest Amazon purchase to the 386 I started with.
Indeed this started somewhere when we had hundreds of megabytes of space for hard drives. For me, clients were told beforehand that the space on the drives was calculated in decimals. I simply told them that because of a conversion system the drives are actually (much) smaller in raw capacity. Some of the clients were semi-technical and knew about the binary system used for hard drive space before.
Those I could tell in detail about the marketing ploy, to sell drives which are under capacity and Market them as higher.
For me the annoying thing is that Storage Systems are still sold with incorrectly displayed capacities.
And since drives will become really large soon, we'll have 32+ terabytes of drives available for consumers, it will be harder _no_ it will be an unnecessary **extra step** to calculate how much raw capacity the drive actually has
Meanwhile in the 80s you knew exactly what the raw capacity was, because they were properly stated by the manufacturers
HDD SSD space should be counted in binary.
1KB in binary is 1024.
A 32 TB hard drive is in fact 30.517578125 TB unpartitioned /unformatted capacity, as the binary system on the computer actually uses it
I know about all those confusing terms that you can find when you go and search on different engines; those are just to confuse and convolute the fact that drives sold are under capacity
Counting storage in decimals is a crime, a marketing scheme which should have been outlawed globally.
I think that #CAMM is a bad design compared to #SODIMM & #DIMM...
Still, just gimme regular-ass socketed Chips & #DIMMs ffs!
#FACT: #RAM & #SSD|s are inevitably dying due to age and use and like #ThermalPaste need to be #replaceable for a device to work longterm!
I'd rather have a #THICC af #laptop that actually survives my daily use than some flimsy #tablet that snaps in half if I sneeze at it.
Also I think it's insulting to frame basic things like "stability" as a negative.
@m I'd just refuse to buy anything that comes with #Govware-#OS #Windows11 preinstalled.
Just buying the devices without any #SSD / #HDD in or explicitly without #WinShit on is one of the best option...
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