• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Spinning platter capacity can’t keep up with SSDs. HDDs are just starting to break the 30TB mark and SSDs are shipping 50+. The cost delta per TB is closing fast. You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash, so you get better utilization.

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      2 months ago

      The cost per terabyte is why hard disk drives are still around. Once the cost for the SSD is only maybe 10% higher is when the former will be obsolete.

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      You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash

      As you can with spinning disks. Nothing about flash makes this a special feature.

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        The difference is you can use inline compression and dedupe in a high performance environment. HDDs suck at random IO.