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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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I don't disagree with you, but on the other hand, this will be a huge boon for people who do things like sail the high seas and wish to keep what they acquire long term. You're not constantly rewriting in those cases. You're just slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) filling up the drive. Eventually, it's essentially read only.
Considering how much I spent on 6 TB of regular hard drive storage for this reason a few years ago, I'd be all for affordable 8 TB SSDs.
You don't need solid state storage for Linux ISOs
I recently bought a 5TB hard drive. It's funny how that sounds like a lot of space until you fill it up and find yourself eyeing another.
Yep, I can't afford any more storage. I've had to start curating and weeding, which is a shame because I know there are things I'd probably eventually revisit. Oh well. So long, Duckman.
if I may ask, what kinds of things are you storing? my computer has only 500gb, my phone has 128gb, and I pay a small fee for 100gb of cloud storage for photos. sometimes I feel like I'm running out of space but it's never a real problem for me. so I'm just curious because I'm having trouble imagining what I'd even fill up 5tb with.
Movies at good quality are like 15GB each. Games frequently blow past 100.
I'm the person in the thread before the person who asked, but I'm in the same boat. In my case: videos, radio shows and comics.
A 4-season TV series in 1080p can easily take up 50-100 gb.
ah that makes sense. thanks
My iCloud Photos is 1.2TB
Admittedly I should prune junk out, but RAW photos from real cameras are big and I'm not giving them up. Same with videos from my DJI.
I mean, you're not wrong but I eventually bought all that shit I torrented in college on gog or steam when I got a job
There are plenty of games that you can't buy on Gog or Steam even today (like any emulation ISO from console games), and sharing is caring for others that can not afford it.
I'm talking about things like movies and TV shows, not games. In fact, if you aren't careful (or just have a game that doesn't allow you to choose where it saves its data), you could have the write cycle issue with games.