Still can't afford it.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Do you think the normal consumer would care? All that matters is for SSD to become as cheap or cheaper than HDDs or nothing
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That's cool and all. How many levels per cell? Can I have it in SLC? No? Ok then I'm good.
Realistically, a couple of 10TB drives would have me covered for like a decade at least. If these massive drives bring down the price of much smaller ones, I'm a happy boy.
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I read 128GB SSDs and thought "who cares"
impressive.
My laptop has a 256GB SSD, and even this still feels plenty to me. Not sure what I'd even do with 500 times that much space.
Simple things. Lemmy, for instance, has grown to ~60GB since June las year. And that's just the db and federated media since I don't really havr any uploads. The big instancea are easily into the hundreds od gigs - I know lemmy.ca had over 300GB of media alone last autumn.
On a more consumer level - high quality 4k media eats up storage pretty fast. The phones taking pictures and video in higher and higher quality - space requirements will only ever go up.
Lemmy federates media other than text?
Sort of. If you check the url of thumbnail images - they'll all be from your local instance.
Some images are also federated. Take this post, for example. The link is to lemmy.world, but the thumbnail and image itself are served by lemmy.cafe.
I've never really delved into what exactly decides whether to federate a particular bit of content or not, but there's definitely more than just text being stored.
Curious. That was not the case when I started using lemmy. It was page after page of thumbnails served by remote instances, showing up as empty frames since I block off-site media.
Since you mentioned it, though, I just checked: some of the images from remote posts are now showing up, hosted by my local instance.
This is an encouraging trend for users who care about privacy (and admins who don't want their servers bearing the load of remote users). I wonder if it's a configuration change that makes the difference, or a new feature in recent lemmy versions.
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I really need to clean up my picture library …
Games eat up my SSD at an alarming rate. I could see myself using several TB easily.
My steam deck typically has one big game installed at a time. At this point, I just want to finish baldurs gate 3 so I can delete it and put on some other games.
that's for enterprise use; also plenty of uses in a data-driven world to run predictive models on.
Store 3 new AAA games?
don't exaggerate. Stores 2 AAA games.
Store one AAAA game. Ubisoft seems to have started making those.
Gotta have that swap space to install!
when they add melee combat to skull and bones it'll become an AAAAA game!
Time for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA games fast approaches.
There's already AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.
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This gave me my first legit lol today thank you
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I’m holding out upgrading for the holographic nano dark matter drives that have infinite storage capacity and RAID data into 3 alternate universes for security.
Some high tech alien's porn stash is embedded in the fabric of our universe and that's the reason we exist.
Are we the porn? Some alien's weird fetish?
That's some nice density you got there. While you're at it...
Can I get a 12.8TB drive 1/10th the physical size (m.2 2230) and has a steady transfer rate of 2.4GBs that costs <$200 dollhairs? Pretty please 🙏
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