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 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 > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:46:27 -0700 > > Ryan Petris 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 > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss