yeah i still use hard drives for storing movies, logs, and backups on my Nas cluster, but using it for nextcloud or remote game storage is too slow. I also live in an apartment and the scrubs are too loud. There's only a 5:1 price premium, so it's worth just going all flash unless you have like 30tb storage needs.

tbf all the big storage clusters use either mirroring or erasure coding these days. For bulk storage, 4+2 or 8+2 erasure coding is pretty fast, but for databases you should always use mirroring to speed up small writes. but yeah for home use, just use LVM or zfs mirrors.

Aren't a lot of the 2.5" ones already empty space?

How big, and how expensive, would a 3.5" SSD be, if it actually filled enough of the space with NAND chips for the form factor to be warranted?

Games can't really compress their assets much.

Stuff like textures generally use a lossless bitmap format. The compression artefacts you get with lossy formats, while unnoticable to the human eye, can cause much more visible rendering artefacts once the game engine goes to calculate how light should interact with the material.

That's not to say devs couldn't be more efficient, but it does explain why games don't really compress that well.

And they’d only be like $5k each. HDD prices have gone ridiculous. I’d just like 20TB drives to be reasonably priced. 10TB drives are twice the price they were 5 years ago.

When I say "compress" I mean downscale. I'm suggesting they could have dozens of copies of each texture and model in a host of different resolutions (number of polygons, pixels for textures, etc), instead of handling that in the code. I'm not exactly sure how they currently do low vs medium vs high settings, just suggesting that they could solve that using a ton more data if they essentially had no limitations in terms of customer storage space.

Yeah but it's not hovering or rotating unsupported in the air. The box said it was going to do that stuff. I'm pretty sure this doesn't even have any weird runes on it either

I want everything wired, antennas and batteries usually don't make that stuff any better

I had an Xbox and it didn't do that either!!!

These are literally only sold by the rack to data centers.

What are you going on about?

Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

There are:
https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/

They are just not listed in shops for poor people. (joking)

Triple? That'd rookie numbers.

Well, Kioxia sells a 30TB 2.5in SSD right now for about $5k. I'm sure they could make a 60+TB SSD by just stacking 2 of them in a 3.5in case.

Flash drives are much worse than hard drives for cold storage. The charge in flash will leak.

If you want cheap storage, back it up to another drive and unplug it.

cool. now I can lose even more data when it dies.

no thanks...

When running a local node, the most other people could possibly see is that "x IP is running a Monero node"

When connecting to a remote node, the node can see:

• Your IP address
• When you submit a transaction (which could link your IP to your transactions)
• The last block your wallet synced (which could be used to determine when you usually use/spent monero last)

It's also possible for a remote node to feed your wallet a manipulated list of decoys, which can reduce the anonymity of the transaction you submit by allowing the remote node to simply remove the fake decoys to find which isn't the decoy (you.)

Thank God, pushing the limits of my 40 TB and need an upgrade /s

No thanks. I'd rather have 4TB SSDs that cost $100. We were getting close to that in 2023, but then the memory manufacturers decided to collude and jacked up prices.

Yeah, I'd expect the bloat to hit when there is a boost in SSD sizes. Right now I think the biggest consumer-grade SSDs are 8TB and are still rather expensive.