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I'll believe it when I see it. 4TB SSDs are still not affordable.
Amazing news! Unfortunately, if this comes to Brazil and 8tb SSD would be the price of a car
They already exist. $dayjob bought some 64GB ssds. They were about $7500USD per drive.
For 64gb? Did you mean tb or is there something unique about these drives?
That makes cars very cheap or technology very expensive
Or both extremely expensive.
might wanna make sure they have sufficient emf shielding
More density means less longevity, less write cycles before the blocks wear out, also decreases the time before Nand leakage can end up corrupting the data. Doesn't seem like a good thing to me.
Oh yeah, also more storage space causes complacency with developers who will terribly optimize their games because they don't have to worry about games not fitting on people's disks. Think 100GB games is bad it'll get much worse when they got more free space at their disposal, and worse, the perception that their customers have tons of free space as well.
Thinking about it, it would be nice if when formatting a partition on mlc based drives, you could specify the number of bits per cell used. So an 8tb QLC drive could be formatted as a 2tb SLC for those who want the resilience, without having to commit to it permanently.
I'm sure there are technical reasons that would be difficult, but everything started out difficult until we figured it out.
I don't disagree with you, but on the other hand, this will be a huge boon for people who do things like sail the high seas and wish to keep what they acquire long term. You're not constantly rewriting in those cases. You're just slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) filling up the drive. Eventually, it's essentially read only.
Considering how much I spent on 6 TB of regular hard drive storage for this reason a few years ago, I'd be all for affordable 8 TB SSDs.
sail the high seas
You don't need solid state storage for Linux ISOs
I recently bought a 5TB hard drive. It's funny how that sounds like a lot of space until you fill it up and find yourself eyeing another.
Yep, I can't afford any more storage. I've had to start curating and weeding, which is a shame because I know there are things I'd probably eventually revisit. Oh well. So long, Duckman.
I mean, you're not wrong but I eventually bought all that shit I torrented in college on gog or steam when I got a job
There are plenty of games that you can't buy on Gog or Steam even today (like any emulation ISO from console games), and sharing is caring for others that can not afford it.
I'm talking about things like movies and TV shows, not games. In fact, if you aren't careful (or just have a game that doesn't allow you to choose where it saves its data), you could have the write cycle issue with games.
Large game file size is an optimization
For the first part, as long as it isn't too bad and it gets detected, and has methods for mitigating damage from losses, that's fine. If you get a lot more capacity but lose some over time, you still have more capacity.
For the latter, yeah it does but do they even care now? Personally, I don't play any games that large really anyway, so it doesn't effect me. Let them lose you as a customer too if that's an issue and they surpass how much you'll put up with.
The first part also applies to cold storage, like if you leave it off for a while and data will degrade without power as electrons leak out. Something that might be a concern for data archival on these drives.
I don't think they do care now, I'm not super worried about it but I might be if I wanted to get a PC port of a game that isn't on PC now, where the old one is well optimized but the new one isn't. Was the story when I got Okami HD on PC, it's insane how they went from a game which came on an 8GB disc for PS3 and it's 34GB on PC, I know they included 4K in the PC one but the fact it's so much insanely larger makes me think a lot of it was wasted space by not compressing what could be compressed.
Yet apple will still charge $200 for 128gb
It's almost as if oligopolies can manipulate prices regardless of availability
Excellent, I needed more space for cookies, malware and games that suddenly require 500GB of free space. I'll have that thing full in no time.
Just don't play the AAA slop and the file sizes are a lot better.
Not sure which ones are AAA slop. I play online every Monday with a friend in the UK. Here are some of the games we've played:
Grim Dawn, Diablo 4, Borderlands, Borderlands 2, Borderlands 3, Borderlands the presequel, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, and currently we're playing Aliens Elite something.
But I have played other games with a different group of friends online.
Man, the formatting sucks. There was a carriage return after every game. Why is it there for the paragraphs and gone for the lists?
Most of those are in the 30-60GB range IIRC. So if you keep 5 installed, you're looking at 200GB or so.
What OP is referring to is things like COD that are 300GB or so.
Why is it there for the paragraphs and gone for the lists?
You need a blank line between paragraphs, so:
First paragraph.
Second paragraph.
If you want a list, add a hyphen or asterisk, like so, and you won't need the blank line:
- item one
- item two
Renders as:
Thank you very much kind sir or madame or whatever you identify as. Very helpful.
Not sure which ones are AAA slop. I play online every Monday with a friend in the UK. Here are some of the games we've played:
Grim Dawn
Diablo 4,
Borderlands,
Borderlands 2,
Borderlands 3,
Borderlands the presequel,
Tiny Tina's Wonderland,
and currently we're playing Aliens Elite something.
But I have played other games with a different group of friends online.
Man, the formatting sucks. There was a carriage return after every game.
The prices will stay the same. Manufacturers will just make more profit.
For SSDs this has historically not been the case, there's no way in hell you could buy a 1TB SSD within $200 a decade ago.
A decade ago 1TB SSDs were rare and, like all new things in tech, expensive.
Soon the new COD will weigh 5TB
COD will ship as a 5TB HDD cartridge :D
We will go back to the cartridge bay days.