Oh, that myth based on the old study that worn out SSDs have a low retention rate? Of course they do! ... If you store them in subpar temperatures near magnets. Otherwise, both HDD and SSD cold storage require plugging in every 6 months to make sure no bit rot has set in. If you are serious about archival, you buy a new HDD every five to ten years and format shift to that.

Main reason HDDs are used for backups over SSDs, is because of cheap capacity. As SSDs double in capacity every other year, while HDDs are growing linearly, NAS boxes will slowly and gradually switch to SSD.

Already it makes sense to go all SSD NAS if you only need the capacity of ~20TB or so, or it did before AI got all crazy for RAM and Storage :) NAS will tip over eventually, it's just a matter of time.

Price right now is completely disrupted by an anomaly in the market, leading to high uncertainty. But, before OpenAI decided to bring a wrecking ball to the market, a 128 TB SSD could be had for ~$13k. That's about $100 per TB, as compared to $15-$25 per TB for HDD storage (new ofc, with used, deals can be had but market prices are much more volatile).

These prices are a pipe dream now, but extrapolating from that market behavior, by 2035 you would be able to get a 4PB drive for, maybe, $20k. That's $5 per TB.

That aside, if you can get a $100 16 TB HDD, or a $200 16TB SSD, which one are you going to get? What about a $50 8TB HDD vs a $100 8TB SSD? Sure the SSD is more expensive but when you can drastically increase everything else at the cost of some capacity... SSDs will win out even if they do not reach price parity. If and once they do reach parity, SSDs will be a no brainer.

HDDs simply cannot compete with SSDs in the long run, even on price. To compete with a $20k 4 PB drive, a 100 TB drive would have to cost $250, and I doubt HDD companies can release new products and sink that low. Meanwhile, 2U blade servers will have 24 disks that each can house 96 Petabytes each. For a standard 26U rack that's 12x96 PB of data. The Exarack is coming in the 2030s, and by 2040, we might even be talking about the Exablade (1u server, 1000+ PB storage). :)

Let's see where this land though. Right now it is next to impossible to say where prices end up, and it could very well be that the hard drive prices stay high longer than the SSD prices... At which point, a $500 8TB SSD is looking a lot more appealing than a $400 16TB hard drive.

HDDs still have four massive problems that I doubt will be solved anytime soon.

1. Capacity. Seagate and other HDD manufacturers have a roadmap of reaching 100 TB by 2035. Meanwhile SSDs are heading for 4 000 TB by 2035. That is x40.

2. Space. Three HDDs can fit up to eight E3.L drives for the same space. And those has 250 TB capacities right now. That means you can fit roughly 2 PB of storage for the same space you can fit 132 TB today. That is 15 times more storage space for the same capacity.

3. Energy. Given 1 and 2, it takes a whole lot more power to drive 15 drives instead of one. If we assume an average of 3 watts in a 24/7 NAS, that is 42 watt extra... Which equates to 368 kWh. It adds up to thousands of dollars in a datacenter over the span of a year.

4. Transfer speeds. Transferring 44 Tb at the rate of 300 MB / second is going to take you 14 days. On a PCIe drive, that time is cut to 10-14 hours if not less. 14 days is a long time things could go wrong.

These four reasons is why I believe HDDs are well and truly cooked. They will be phased out but I will never install a HDD on any machine I own ever again and I know I am not alone in thinking that.

HDDs are dying. Time to start letting go.

Yes during ~100 days a year solar is currently unviable... In Svalbard.

Germany is so cheap with Solar+Wind+Batteries now, it i rapidly killing coal.

Do yourself a favor. Rent an EV with 300 miles+ of charge and make that trip back and forth. Come back, tell us how it went. I can guarantee you that you are full of shit and projecting stuff that isn't true.

While you are at it, might as well increase the fuel efficiency to 100 mpg equivalent.

https://www.idealclassiccars.n...

So they slipped, fell, and dragged the anchor through the seabed on accident. For several hours. Multiple times.

It's like how my sisters ex-husband just accidentally slipped, fell, lost all his clothes and then happened to stick his dick into another woman multiple times, too. Whom also happened to be nude at the time.

Credibility: Zero.

While I do agree with you, the office does have some advantages. I believe coming in once or twice every week is healthy.

At the same time I see no reason why you should come in every day, or even every other day. Right now though, with housing being the mess it is, it is going to take a while to see where the new hot seats of innovation show up. We will still see some office work, this is unavoidable.

Frameworks are useful once your team grows to 4+ people - at that point it is much easier to bring newcomers up to speed with a framework, and much easier to help other projects that use the same framework.

So, no, there is zero reason to switch over the projects to a framework for the projects themselves; but there might be merit to do it for your contracting biz ðY(TM)

> Politicians defunded actual fire fighting capabilities to shift money to fund DEI initiatives

If you dig deeper you will find the money went o more oil drilling, not DEI.

It is interesting to see how Americans just flat out refuse to let go of the concept of race, choosing instead to embrace fascism, racism and a much bigger poverty gap over freedom, equality and Brotherhood.

So... Congratulations, you just voted to make the land of the free the land of the sheep. Hope you are happy ðY(TM)

I am asking why it even matters in the first place whether the creator of a video game choose to have a bimbo with a DD rack (Lara Croft) or a person belonging to the LGBTQ+ crowd as the protagonist of a video game.

Why is it ok with a video game with Tifa Lockhart, Chun Li or Princess Peach (or, for that matter, Duke Nukem) as a protagonist, but not a Transperson or a homosexual person?

And obviously you are upset over this. Why would you otherwise spend the energy to type the above post?

The fact you feel the need to object to a main character being gay or trans or, heaven forbid, a 50-something grandma, just for the sake of it, no point really except they felt like putting it in there - that says a to about you as a person.

Why does this upset you? How are those artistic choices any different than putting a plumber as the main hero, or a 20 something female with a gun that has the ability to open wormholes, or a female archaeologist whose main defining characteristics are their DD sized chest?

Why do these "woke" characteristics upset you and not say, the fountain scene in God of War or the fact that you can be a complete psycho in Postal, or...

My point is, there are a hundred different reasons to be mad at a hundred different artistic choices in video games. How is a gay protagonist in Assassins Creed ruining that game for you?

The games does not tell people that "boys should be girls". They merely state that SOME human beings have been misclassified as boys / girls.

This should be about as controversial as saying that slaves are not stupid animals but real thinking, breathing human beings and no human deserves the treatment slaves usually get.

Detroit can no longer compete in China, where car sales are collapsing. Europe is same thing look at the Norwegian market for a precursor on what will happen there, and, frankly, in all parts of the world.

The green new deal was an attempt to get Detroit off ICE cars since they are about to get as popular a transportation method as horses are today.

You criticize it for going too far while in reality it wasn't even near far enough.

In theory Arm is more efficient.

In practice Zen 5 is currently beating the snot put of Apple in perf per watt right now.

So...