Maybe consider looking at what all those had in common... Ie you

I had one of these, it worked perfectly for years. I might even still have it. I remember it being a significant leap in size and cost per MB.

We had failure rates over 90% on them. We sold around 8000 computers on contract to the local schools that year and took a hit to our rep. We started going from school to school replacing them before they could fail.

The drive in the picture is dated mar 16 97. I'm pretty sure it was one of thousands of warranty replacements we received. Like I said its still good but really hasn't been in service in over 30 years. I keep it because its a reminder of how bad, bad can be.

JT storage went out of business in 98. When we heard they had no one was surprised.

JT Storage - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

UK so hopefully not too much of an issue with tariffs here. Also tempted by an N150 miniPC, could stick proxmox on that.

My main data usage is game installs and pretty unimportant temporary stuff so it doesn't need backup fortunately. Game saves do of course but a simple bash script and the file size for that is tiny in comparison.

SSD performance would be nice to have, but costs extra.

4k Blu-ray rips? Naw, probably porn.

Memory manufacturers purposely cut production to help justify cost increases: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/memory-prices-rebound-due-to-reduced-production-increasing-demand

But yeah, they'll also take advantage of demand (real or imaginary) to jack up prices: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-confirms-memory-price-hikes-as-ai-and-data-center-demand-surges

It’s mostly textures, video, and audio.

The game code is probably less than 10gb

Change languages in your game, I am willing to bet it doesn’t download a language pack for whatever language you choose.

You need multiple textures for different screens, resolutions, etc. to provide the best looking results. Multiply by the number of unique environments…

Additionally, it’s not like they can only use “high” or “low” assets, as they progressively load different level of detail assets depending on the scene or distance.

Same with all of the video cutscenes in games, they play pre-rendered videos for cutscenes.

Put a fan in it, you have space

SSDs are getting reasonable, you might want to look into it again if that's your use case.

You thought 50TB was it? LOL! Hold on to your butts because 53.713TB SSDs are coming! These will cost you all your vital organs at 35years of age. Brains included.

That's the default setting when setting up a local wallet. It is also more private due to not being dependent on someone else's node.

Can't wait to see how these 40 TB hard drives, a wonderment of technology, will be used to further shove AI down my throat.

A mirror of Anna’s Archive.

Information is meant to be free.

There are loads of people who think a company is bad because of one product, one service etc.
A friend of mine hates Seagate, but he bought 10 drives of the same model. Pretty sure he even bought some after the first one failed ... or people (like me) put desktop drives in a NAS or service with other drives. While mine are still good I expect them to fail any time since well they are not desinged for the use case I am using them for.

Pretty sure they are fiscally located in Ireland like a lot of big companies for tax reason and for EU VAT reasons.

That is an absolutely wild fail rate.

I've definitely seen more hdd failures than ssd failures in my life, that said, enterprise storage is indeed very robust. My WD red pros have all been workhorses. And right now the price per dollar is definitely in favor of HDDs. That really needs to change though. The raw materials alone make HDDs more expensive to produce, the problem is only that there are less manufacturers with the means to actually produce the chips necessary for SSDs because HDDs have been around for a million years. Once that changes, I think HDDs will and should go the way of every obsolete storage medium thats existed prior.

Oh, nice idea! Maybe that's kind of what Simon on Firefly meant by a "source box".