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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You compared cheapest by cheapest, however items cost is more efficient with larger sizes

If you compare the best GB per $ sizes of both media types it is likely going to much more apart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I compared cheapest per TB. The HDDs were most efficient at 18TB, the SSDs at 2 or 4 TB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh I see. I need better reading comprehension.

When I do the same calculation I come up with HDD being 4.5x cheaper per TB.