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Whoa, check out that Samsung NF1 form-factor [0]. Looks like you could pack a ton of small finger-sized SSD drives vertically into a small space. [0] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13752/IMGP2727_575px.jpg This is one way in which it's a cool time to be alive. I'll never forget circa 1996 when I waited 20+ minutes for my Apple Performa 550 to read and load a 30MB file from the scsi disk into memory. All so quickti…
Exciting times indeed, just type "ssd" in your favorite search box. I'm about to upgrade to a 512GB SSD that costs half what an SSD half its size used to cost 5 years ago! Starting this year, I'm considering getting a low-end 120GB for $25 every year on January 1st to use as a write-once backup for all my work.
I'd expect USB drives to be more durable. Would be nice to know.
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I don't know that I'd consider RAID 10 for prosumer. RAID 1, absolutely. RAID 10 seems like needlessly adding more complexity and higher failure rates.
Great point. Complexity is killer in home setups.
I've been following the news and it's amazing how SSDs are still progressing, a bit slower but similar to Moore's Law. Prices for Samsung SSD 1TB external USB products: - 2015 $600: Samsung T1 http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/samsung-portable-ssd... - 2016 $430: Samsung T3 https://www.storagereview.com/samsung_portable_ssd_t3_review - 2018 $200: Samsung T5 https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/12/samsung-t5-po…
I wouldn't use external SSDs as the price benchmark, since they had a big price premium over an equivalent mSATA SSD back then. For example, I bought a 1TB samsung mSATA SSD in 2015 for about $320 and it's enclosure for $15. The equivalent SSD today is about $150. So instead of a 3x price decrease in the past 3 years, it's more like a 2x price decrease.
Why is there competition in the SSD market but not in the RAM market?
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I await the day I can fill my NAS with SSDs. Might save on power usage as well.
SSDs consume more, not less power, to comparable spinning HDs, especially in always-on scenarios. Once started, the amount of power required to keep a platter spinning is miniscule.
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I wouldn't use external SSDs as the price benchmark, since they had a big price premium over an equivalent mSATA SSD back then. For example, I bought a 1TB samsung mSATA SSD in 2015 for about $320 and it's enclosure for $15. The equivalent SSD today is about $150. So instead of a 3x price decrease in the past 3 years, it's more like a 2x price decrease.
mSATA SSD's are so rare these days
Whoa, check out that Samsung NF1 form-factor [0]. Looks like you could pack a ton of small finger-sized SSD drives vertically into a small space. [0] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13752/IMGP2727_575px.jpg This is one way in which it's a cool time to be alive. I'll never forget circa 1996 when I waited 20+ minutes for my Apple Performa 550 to read and load a 30MB file from the scsi disk into memory. All so quickti…
That must get really hot, I wonder how well it cools?
The new connectors between the drives and the mid-plane board are probably the most important innovation these new form factors bring to the table, though something similar could also be done for existing SAS/U.2 connectors.
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> I'm not sure how you got that ... sigh. bad at arithmetic today. sorry. > I wouldn't trust almost any company to still exist in 41 years, including Backblaze as i mention in the reply to the sibling comment, the backblaze corporate entity doesn't need to last. > DVD or Blu-ray discs might last that long... but it's hard to trust any storage medium to last for 41 years on an anecdotal note, i put a bunch of data on…
Don't write optical media at the maximum possible speed, reasonably protect it from light, and it will last much longer. I always did that and haven't lost a disk yet. I'd need to recheck a few really old ones, though...
