Hard drives, often treated as a legacy technology, are once again being pulled into the spotlight.

Hard drives, often treated as a legacy technology, are once again being pulled into the spotlight.

  • neutronbumblebee@mander.xyzEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Why slow rotating physical storage ? It not like the AI models generate anything worth retaining in the long term. I assume they are in just running out of ssds so will buy any old drive

    • ellieficent@reddthat.comEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Might also be non-AI consumers reassessing their storage needs. If SSD’s are expensive and you don’t necessarily NEED the faster speed, you’ll hop to the cheaper choice.