Hard drive industry: I'm not dead yet! These will likely maintain a 5x cost per bit advantage vs flash, which is compelling for any high volume application that can tolerate 6ms random seek latency. Heck, it's compelling for my backup array in the closet.
Stop!
HAMR time.
Stop!
HAMR time.
Waiting for reliability reports to say, "Too legit to quit".
Hard drive industry: I'm not dead yet! These will likely maintain a 5x cost per bit advantage vs flash, which is compelling for any high volume application that can tolerate 6ms random seek latency. Heck, it's compelling for my backup array in the closet.
Surely, you mean:
When all you have is a HAMR, every problem starts to look like a thumb drive.
That is roughly equal to: /. reader's collection of (*ahem*) "movies".
1. 200 CODs (Call of Duty installs).
2. 3.33 libraries of Congress.
3. 1/8 of 1
Or just 1 CVS register receipt [vox.com].