“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”
This is less useful than libraries of congress.
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Yeah. My video collection tend not to be that long. Like 10mins normally.
I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.
Make sure you make backups - it’s better to have multiple small drives in case of failure than one big, but in any case 3-2-1 backups!
I meant the measure quoted
Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.
It doesn't say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless
It’s a ballpark average. The point is that it translates to “a holy shit ton of movies”. I need to store a holy shit ton of movies.
Buy a dozen and you could fit a good chunk of LibGen.
Almost two years of non stop video.
Honestly, that size of drive doesn't need a comparison. This isn't for your average user, so you don't need to dumb it down for them.
Yeah really. It's been years since I saw a 90m movie.
Regardless of where it’s made hopefully it brings down the price of drives for the rest of us.
drives down the price
finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
You can finally store half a call of duty game on a single drive !
Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?
I don't know about HDDs but for SSDs they hit a very low price ~~last~~ September 2023, and the companies decided to cut production so the prices go up again. It worked, today SSD drives are more expensive than last year. I bet they did something similar to the HDD, but it's only hypothetical.
'Chineese startup nobody has heard of.'
...am... I racist for immediately thinking scam? Like.. they shoved a couple thumb drives in a fancy case level of scam?
No no its just sad reality that china is build on scam. Its a core value in their society, sadly
Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it "a core value in their society" is a bit racist.
No. It really is. Since the cultural Revolution, china has lost its manners. Gutter Oil, tofu drag, taking a whole "all you can eat" for yourself and ruining it with paper and spices for others, demanding money from a newly wed couple (originally it is that you give a few a red envelope with money. People close to you) eventhough you dont have anything to do with them, fake meat, glue instead of milk, fake tofu (its stirofome if you are lucky) and i can count more. Shooting birds with a slingshot, when in japan, carving spiritual shrines and cutting down/damaging/shaking off the cherry blossom trees
Its so so sad.
I would say it’s bad because the only reason low quality products exist from China is because there is a company ordering them, typically American. All of our expensive tech comes from there any you haven’t heard of most of those companies
No because Chinese isn't a race its a nationality. If you used one of the races there like Han The predominate race there. than yes it would be racist. The Han are in fact often refereed to has the real Chinese. But china is made up of many races not just the one.
Okay bud Chinese 99.999999999% of the time refers to Han. If you ask a Chinese person they will say 中国人, Chinese. Yes Han is the proper nomenclature but no Chinese person would make this argument.
I don't think that's true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it's diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the "Five races under one union" (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the "Three Principles of the People" formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It's foundational to both Chinese republics.
(but if we're talking about the language, then "Chinese" is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)
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