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.

phrasing

If you aren't running a home server with tons of storage, this product is not for you. If the price is right, 40TB to 50TB is a great upgrade path for massive storage capacity without having to either buy a whole new backplane to support more drives or build an entirely new server. I see a lot of comments comparing 4TB SSDS to 40TB HDD's so had to chime in. Yes, they make massive SSD storage arrays too, but a lot of us don't have those really deep pockets.

It's always worth paying more for Western Digital.

64TB and 100TB, niiiice

I expect many are not upgrading every small incremental improvement too. It's the 20TB HDDs that are ready to replace.

I thought prices seemed to be taking a while come down on 4TB SSDs as I had been looking at them for a while.

Don't really want it enough to spend £200 though. Would be to replace a 1+2TB HDD LVM. Now that I think about it, I have never copied a few TBs of data in one go.

You do realize that there is probably a fair chunk of people on here who can say that unironically?

I feel like heat would start to become a serious issue at that point.

Still cheaper though. 4TB you are looking at around 3x the price for it in SSD storage. Although I wonder how the power use compares, might be worth factoring in but probably isn't too massive over it's realistic lifespan

Imagine how long it’ll take to rebuild your raid array after one fails lol

Ok, I’m sorry, but… HOW???? How is it possibly two hundred fucking gigabytes?!?!? What the fuck is taking up so much space???

Uuh. That is exactly how games work.

And that's completely normal. Every modern game has multiple versions of the same asset at various detail levels, all of which are used. And when you choose between "low, medium, high" that doesn't mean there's a giant pile of assets that go un-used. The game will use them all, rendering a different version of an asset depending on how close to something you are. The settings often just change how far away the game will render at the highest quality, before it starts to drop down to the lower LODs (level of detail).

That's why the games aren't much smaller on console, for exanple. They're not including all the unnecessary assets for different graphics settings from PC. They are all part of how modern game work.

"Handling that in the code" would still involve storing it all somewhere after "generation", same way shaders are better generated in advance, lest you get a stuttery mess.

And it isn't how most game do things even today. Such code does not exist. Not yet at least. Human artists produce better results, and hence games ship with every version of every asset.

Finally automating this is what Unreals nanite system has only recently promised to do, but it has run into snags.

I can’t place why, but the thought of used enterprise SSDs still sketches me out more than HDDs. Maybe it’s just that I only ever think of RAID in terms of hard drives, paired with a decade+ of hearing about SSD reliability issues, which are very different from the more familiar problems HDDs can have.

The power and noise difference makes it more appealing to me, moreso than the speed, personally. Maybe when consumer bottom-barrel SSDs get a little better I could be convinced into RAIDing a bunch of them and hoping one cold spare is enough.

EDIT: I can acquire new ~200$ 4TB Orico branded drives where I am relatively easily. Hm.

More than triple the next largest game. All I want is the zombies mode and space to install other games, I could probably cull 80% of the COD suite and be just fine, but I have to carry the whole bag to reach in ‍️