Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 01:11:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] Nice line up. > I wonder what kind of drives are used nowadays in big datacenters (and > whether the prices they pay for them looks anything like the ones > above). One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes r

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread Linux-Fan
Stefan Monnier writes: Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote: > On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no >>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, >>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable id

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > That makes 3½" form factor even more dead than I thought (two 4TB 2½" > drives should offer better performance than one 8GB 3½" drive and use > less space, not sure about power consumption). Erm. You just doubled your failure rate. There are times when that's worthwhile

[OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote: > On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no >>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, >>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users. >>