SSDs versus spinning-rust drives

[Steve Litt]

Yes, I meant 5 TB for $100.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
December 2019 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl2

On Wed, 04 Dec 2019 03:14:20 +0000 (UTC)
David Schwartz <newsletters at thetoolwiz.com> wrote:

> $100 for a 5GB drive? WTF?
> 
> I sure hope that’s a typo…
> 
> As someone else pointed out, SSDs are running about $100 / TB. 
> 
> I’d think you’d have to be almost insane to buy a 10TB SSD. Dell has
> a 7.68TB SSD for $25k. Intel has an 8TB SSD for $2k. Micron has a
> 7.68TB SSD for about $800. Samsung has 4TB SSDs for $500.
> 
> Unless you’re working on large video files and you’ve got a
> mega-powerful machine with 65GB of high-speed RAM, I can’t really see
> the value of a really huge SSD like that for primary storage.
> 
> Spinning HDDs are a lot cheaper. You can get an 8TB Seagate backup
> drive for $130 or so. That’s what I’m using for my backups right now,
> and it’s fine. 
> 
> The USB 3.1 V2 interfaces on regular HDDs are pretty damn fast, but
> nowhere near as fast as SSDs. And my experience is they’re very
> sensitive to heat, and slow way down when they’re under constant use
> for very long (eg., 100GB+ files).
> 
> -David Schwartz
> 
> 
> > On Dec 3, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:46:27 -0700
> > Ryan Petris <ryan at petris.net> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> 
> >> If you haven't checked up on SSD prices in a while, you might want
> >> to check again. They've come down significantly even in the last 6
> >> months.  
> > 
> > Looks like about $100/TB, which is nice but inconvenient if you need
> > 10TB. I just bought a Seagate (yeah, I know) 5GB spinner USB3 drive
> > for $100.00.
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > Steve Litt 
> > December 2019 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21  
>