Why are HDDs still relevant?

Why are HDDs still relevant?
Why is the happy merchan allowed to keep technology stuck in a shitloop/5% improvement year?

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They're more reliable for long term storage and cheaper than SSDs still. There.

60TB M.2 when?

Source: my bruised and cum filled ass

You may not be able to see past your shitty chinkpad, but corporations and data centers are the largest consumer of storage media. And they like reliability and longevity.

So, SSDs?

Even when they died the data is not lost, they become read-only

And 50% of servers have flash memory. The enterprise market is what is driving demand, and ultimately low prices for gamer plebs like you.

DESU most high density SSD's that are for Enterprise usage (ie:servers) are mostly scratch drives or those that aren't scratch drives are high availability drives that it's data deteriorate when unplugged.
So here's the thing hard drives are good because the rate of attrition to the data when powered down is lower then the SSD's and the fact they have higher data density then SSD's for a much smaller cost .

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serverfault.com/questions/660715/what-are-the-differences-between-consumer-grade-ssds-and-the-much-more-expensive

Same thing why tape is still a thing. Cost efficiency.

You never gave a source over why a server would be un-powered.
You just linked some forum posts.

Face it: flash memory great, and it's only getting better

Tape is a meme

Not that guy but you just posted comparisons between consumer and enterprise SSDs. What the fuck does that have to do with anything? It doesn't support any of your claims at all.

SSD lose data if they aren't powered on for some time.

No one uses SSD for archival purposes, that's what Read only mediums are for retard.

>limited number of writes
Top meme tech.

>they have higher data density then SSD's
>then
>SSD's
Your intelligence shines through your posts with such blinding brilliance that I can't help but wonder why you bother gracing us low-lifes with your presence.

That aside, you're absolutely right in that HDDs are cheaper than SSDs. Density/volume/cost is absolutely meaningless though. Are you related to that beawesome faggot, by any chance? You seem just as stupid and vocal.

One year unpowered for consumer drives and three months unpowered for enterprise drives, minimum, as stated by JEDEC standards. When's the last time you stored your desktop or laptop at 30 degrees celsius for a year? How often do you think a server gets stored at 40 degrees celsius for three months?

Now follow the ridiculously long line of discussion(whooping 3 posts) and realize you're a fucking moron.

>what is cold storage

Why the fuck would anyone have a server unplugged for years?
Why would anyone ever use sdds for archiving?
Can you even point to ONE recommendation for ssds for long term storage?
Or one recent article demonstrating precisely how long this period is?

In a few years flash will be on par with rust cost wise. Rust has absolutely no more cost reduction ability.

dont hdds also get data rot tho

>What is desperately grasping at straws

i love my 5TB hard drive

i can dump my 1000s of gigs of chinese cartoons and lossless music on it

See >HDDs are better than SSDs for archival
>NO BECAUSE I SAY NO
>I explain why
>BUT NOBODY USES THEM FOR ARCHIVAL ANYWAY

They also randomly stop working, just like ssds.

Considering Moore's law and that we have 2tb m2 SSDs today, about 10 years.

>I am a poorfag that suffers from sour grape syndrome

Its the only logical explanation for anyone not using flash

> stuck in a shitloop/5% improvement year
That's not stuck, that's an amazing growth rate for something old.

You think our car prices went down that much? Food production up that much? Nope.

Moore's conjecture, and it's essentially dead already, even in the revised form.

What did he mean by that?

Because i need 15 tb storage for a homeserver and 8 tb for my pc, i have a ssd in my homeserver for the os and in my pc too. If i want a 8tb ssd i'm going to need 4 x 2tb drives, which costs around 650$ per drive.

>>I am a poorfag that suffers from sour grape syndrome

Which still is amazingly cheap, all things considered.

But yea, you can also do it with still very capable HDD for a lot less. Life with computers is pretty decent in that sense.

And why would i need ssds when i dont have over ~ 2gbps internet speed, i use my homeserver for movies and it's fast enough copying them. The copy speeds are around 86.9 mb/s. If i bought ssds in my homeserver i would need a 10 gbps switch + 2 network cards.

>2tb HDD
>$81
amazon.com/Seagate-3-5-Inch-Internal-Retail-STBD2000101/dp/B005OKQUJ6
>2tb SSD
>$656
amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E2T0B-AM/dp/B010QD6W9I

Moore's law only applies to CPUs. That being said, the increase in SSD storage density is still astounding and will probably continue for some time as there are numerous tricks that manufacturers and fabs can use to keep pushing development.

Flash memory?

I'm sure they will progress, but I personally don't expect it to be at the rate of moore's conjecture.

If we are lucky, maybe once someone halves prices at some point. Okay. But then that won't continue every ~two years for a longer time.

Moore's law doesn't apply to CPUs. It applies to the number of transistors. Both CPUs and SSDs are made of them.

PS: Also the same to getting twice as much storage per flat surface area or whatever.

That probably won't even happen once.

>that's what Read only mediums are for retard.

>Spend night after night burning stacks of optical media in this day and age

>PS: Also the same to getting twice as much storage per flat surface area or whatever.
>That probably won't even happen once.
But that's already happened with stack flash. It'll probably happen again as we get better at stacking things.

...

that made me laugh

SSDs went up in price. I ain't buying one until they're cheap like they were a few months back.

They are aesthetic, I have a Barracuda in my computer isn't that neat

Maybe if you don't count stacked arrangements. I feel the next layer of the stack is mounted on a "surface" itself, though.

And yes, in the past it has happened, same as moore's conjecture in general. But I think it's not gonna happen now.

Is it not that ssd's last longer than hdd's?

Just bought 500gb for $120
But yes, you are correct

>Going from flat surface to counting individual surfaces in three dimensions to discount a recent example just to push a pessimistic view of the future
I'll bet you're the life and soul of any party you go to.

I'm not in the camp of when since it will happen, what I want to know is when it will be affordable? I bought a 1TB SSD for $400 three or so years ago and the prices haven't dropped that much during the time. Sure, you could find a $200 1TB SSD on sales, but that is still quite the premium compared to a 1TB HDD. On another note, I'm probably going to buy 24TB of drives this year as hopefully the final time I put mechanical drives on a system, I really want SSDs to catch up in GB/shekel.

My 850 evo is already running hotter than my CPU and this shit is going to be even worse.
>liquid cooling for hard drive
Lmao

So what is a reasonable price drop per year?
30%
200%
400%

>they like reliability and longevity.
which is why they favor tape

They only use tape because there is no other option, not because its great.
It has a shitton of problems, total meme

The only thing that generates a non-negligible amount of heat on an SSD is the controller. If the controller is warmer than ~50 celsius then something is wrong and it's probably user error.

>which is why they favor tape

Tape is dying, it's all about HDDs and distributed storage in the data centers now. There is no room for tape in the clouds.

got to love intel that makes the drive kill itself on restart once the driver hits it set number of writes.

They favor tape because they've been doing it that way for the past 20+ years and couldn't dream of switching. You know how difficult and expensive it is to securely transfer data from tape storage to HDD? Retardedly, and for no really good reason other than it's old and unwieldy.

Source: I did consulting work for Datalink.

Makes me wonder why people didn't just compress their data into split archives with parity before transferring to tape? That way even if the transfer isn't 100%, the data can still be recovered.

Are we talking about the same tapes?

cuz they be cheap n lots of storage.

SSD thermal throttling is a very real problem, look it up. Sure, it happens only under sustained writing, but it's "by design", certainly not due to "user error".

All this talk about storage and here I am being angry about RAM not progressing at all.

Beyond error correction, when is standard RAM bottlenecking anything at the moment? Genuine question, I haven't been following its development in the past 4 years.

Not same user, but it basically isn't. It's almost always like 2 generations too fast for virtually any CPU application.

I think current RAM is mainly used in GPU and GPU specialized to do HPC computations (Tesla P100 and stuff).

But all you have to do is put it in another machine, and you can read all the data.

Not on an 850 it shouldn't be

>Not same user, but it basically isn't. It's almost always like 2 generations too fast for virtually any CPU application.
>I think current RAM is mainly used in GPU and GPU specialized to do HPC computations (Tesla P100 and stuff).


Basically this. It's difficult to fill a modern memory chip with (meaningful) information anywhere near its bus bandwidth using a modern CPU. Reading out and processing the data even more so.

For video cards typically the process rates are higher but still nowhere near bottleneck.

AFAIK, Video card onboard RAM can sometimes be meaningfully made to bottleneck. Which is why they put extremely fast RAM on there.

But if you mean video card -> system RAM, then no. there is pretty much no application that wants to bottleneck that.

System RAM is just conveniently fast for what "everyone" does already.

You would be surprised to know how many people do not understand this. I have seen trained engineers using SSD's as backup media. I have seen some SSD manufacturers actually market them for backup/archive purposes.

who gives a fuck if they can make huge SSD's when they can't even make small SSD's cheaper than they were a year ago?

fuck this shit i'm outta here.

You understand supply and demand? Have you made it that far in school yet?

>optical

What you think people archive on fucking DVD's?

of course i understand supply and demand, and i understand there's no fucking way nand companies are overselling to companies and underselling to consumers.

don't give me this bullshit about supply, it's fucking microchips. memory 'supply' issues have historically always been bullshit to fatten up somebody's pocket.

good thing there's that new factory in china coming up.

tomshardware.com/news/nand-dram-fab-tsinghua,33470.html

because its cheap
i dont want to pay $350 for a terabyte for my media server that doesnt need the speed

How it stand with the memory cell degradation over the course of time?

If there's something which doesn't need high bandwidth and low latency, HDD is appropriate.

Read: Other peoples data.

Music made by others (not yourself).
Programs made by others (not yourself).
Documents made by others (not yourself).

Am I right?

Where's "Images made by others (not yourself)"?
Where's "Anime made by others (not yourself)"?

I don't know, I somehow seem to have missed it, just like magnet rap videos made by others (not yourself).

Anyway, I'm sure you'll catch my point.

Intel memepoint and Samsung ZNAND fucking when? Fucking Intel and Micron have been having problems for years now, I hope the gooks wreck their shit in that matter.

> And they like reliability and longevity.
That's why we're moving from tape to the cloud

You just used lots of letters and words (not designed by yourself).

Please license (everything) that is not your property (everything)!

This.

You really need to lurk on ---.dramexchange.

>implying you can own a series of 0s and 1s

get a load of this goy

> not patenting every single string of binary you personally create
lmao

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS EVEN IN THAT DATABANK

WHY THE FUCK WOULD ONE PERSON NEED SO MUCH DATA

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT

> WHAT IN THE FUCK IS EVEN IN THAT DATABANK
All the reasons why OP is a faggot. Volume 1 (of 7).

>No one uses SSD for archival purposes
So what do you do once your 10 TB SSD fills up with data and you want to archive it? You have to fall back to magnetic storage/other, making it worthwhile to store large data on HDD now, instead of wasting time and money on SSDs. SSDs are for when you need IO performance, like for an OS and programs, not for storage.
Christ. Just imagine pulling out your 10-year old SSD from storage only to find your photos have been corrupted or completely gone. HDDs don't have this problem, even 20+year old ones.

Price, OP you fucktard.

Also large storage via SSD is unnecessary unless you're moving giant uncompressed files around.

HDDs can be set up with RAID 5/6/10 and put in an external enclosure via Thunderbolt/USB3.1 and it will work great and you will have tons of storage for cheap.

This. Price/gb is still lower for hdds compared to ssds.
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> Why are HDDs still relevant?
Price.
They are cheaper.

HDDs are mostly used in enterprise.

You have to realise that your silly 1 / 2 / 3 drives in your PC are not the center of the world.

Enterprise clients, who really store the data, still opt for HDD simply because:
SSDs can't be relied on at the same level.
GB per inch is still lots cheaper in HDD
There is no data loss risk over time on HDD's as it is on SSD's.
- yes, storage memory on SSD is volatile
- no, as a regular consumer you have nothing to worry about and there is no need to move your precious porn collection from USB's to HDD's.

t.insider

>one person
wew

I'm sure Amazons AWS or Microsofts Azure have much much larger facilities.

Not even mentioning Google's setup.

SSDs lose information for long periods of inactivity
a well kept hard disk will last decades

>a well kept hard disk will last decades
So will an SSD

you can certainly use SSDs as backup media for a lot of situations especially in a datacenter
that doesn't really mean dick though, long-term archival storage is a different situation from short-term disaster recovery, many of those businesses are using disks and tapes as well

not the information on it unless you're powering it on every once and a while

>couple of months
>every once in a while
It's not archival storage, an SSD will usually be powered at least once a week or continuously if you suspend it instead of powering off. I'm also sure since peripherals are always powered unless you switch off your power supply, there's no reason an SSD wouldn't be if they're not already.
For long term storage M-Discs or archival grade BluRay discs are superior anyway.