I'll shed no tears, even as a NAS owner, once we get equivalent capacity SSD without ruining the bank :P
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Meanwhile Western Digital moves away from SSD production and back to HDDs for massive storage of AI and data lakes and such: https://www.techspot.com/news/107039-western-digital-exits-ssd-market-shifts-focus-hard.html
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No shit. All they have to do is finally grow the balls to build SSD's in the same form factor as the 3.5" drives everyone in enterprise is already using, and stuff those to the gills with flash chips.
"But that will cannibalize our artificially price inflated/capacity restricted M.2 sales if consumers get their hands on them!!!"
Yep, it sure will. I'll take ten, please.
Something like that could easily fill the oodles of existing bays that are currently filled with mechanical drives, both in the home user/small scale enthusiast side and existing rackmount stuff. But that'd be too easy.
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Just like magnetic tape! Oh wait..
So can someone make 3.5" SSDs then????
I want them like my 8" floppies!
Why? We can cram 61TB into a slightly overgrown 2.5” and like half a PB per rack unit.
Because we don't have to pack it in too much. It'd be higher capacities for cheaper for consumers
Also cooling
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They can be made any size. Most SATA SSD are just a plastic housing around a board with some chips on it. The right question is when will we have a storage technology with the durability and reliability of spinning magnetized hard drive platters. The nand flash chips used in most SSD and m.2 are much more reliable than they were initially. But for long-term retention Etc. Are still off quite a good bit from traditional hard drives. Hard drives can sit for about 10 years generally before bit rot becomes a major concern. Nand flash is only a year or two iirc.
Longer if it has some kind of small power. I think I read that somewhere.
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Spinning rust is a funny way of describing HDDs, but I immediately get it