Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterpriseswww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down14
arrow-up1183arrow-down1external-link'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterpriseswww.techradar.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoI’m about to build a home server with a lot of storage (relatively, around 6 or 8 times 12 TB as a ballpark), and I didn’t even consider anything other than spinning drives so far.
minus-squarenucleative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoBecause spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 days agoEspecially for large sizes. Also speed isn’t really much of an issue on a domestic network.
I’m about to build a home server with a lot of storage (relatively, around 6 or 8 times 12 TB as a ballpark), and I didn’t even consider anything other than spinning drives so far.
Because spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
Especially for large sizes. Also speed isn’t really much of an issue on a domestic network.