https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/06/19/storage-trends/
I wrote the above blog post about trends in consumer level storage. Basically SSDs are getting so cheap that for large portions of the market spinning media makes no sense. If you need less than 2TB of storage in a workstation or server then SSD or NVMe is probably the best choice. The cheapest SSDs are significantly cheaper than the cheapest hard drives. I'm sending all my spare hard drives that are less than 500G in size to e- waste. I'll keep some 500G disks in the hardware library but anything smaller doesn't seem worth using. Also I'm going to send to e-waste all hardware that's designed for 32bit Intel systems. While a P3 made a decent firewall system, the cheap SATA SSDs make 64bit systems comparable for power use so I don't think a P3 is any good for a firewall nowadays. If anyone wants to make any last minute requests for IDE disks etc let me know. Finally while we aren't having LUV meetings you can still get access to the hardware library. Email me off-list if there's stuff you need, I can leave it on my porch or drop it off to you if you live in an area that's near somewhere I visit. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
