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SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Most hardrives live in servers, as part of storage volumes where IO can be optimised well beyond the capability of a single disk.
For the boot disk on my workstation I am absolutely using an SSD, but for the hundreds of terabytes of largely static data that I need to keep archived? Spinning disks all the way. Not only to SSDs need to match on price, but they also have a long way to come in terms of longevity.