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8TB for just $260

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  • 10-12-2014 4:18am
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    Streets_of Rage 2 Come_On
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    Works out at 3 cent a gig.


    http: // www .extremetech.com/computing/195543-seagates-first-shingled-hard-drives-now-shipping-8tb-for-just-260
    Seagate, using its new shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to cram more data into fewer platters, is preparing to launch an 8TB hard drive priced at just $260. For that low-low price (just over 3 cents per gig!) you get a three-year warranty and very low power consumption — but certainly not performance. This 8TB drive is all about long-term storage and backups — pair it with a new SSD like the Samsung 850 Pro or 850 Evo and you’d have a very flexible, cost-effective storage setup.


    The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only two remain after 1.5PB
    YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH DATA can be written to modern SSDs. No, seriously. Our ongoing SSD Endurance Experiment has demonstrated that some consumer-grade drives can withstand over a petabyte of writes before burning out. That's a hyperbole-worthy total for a class of products typically rated to survive only a few hundred terabytes at most.

    http: // techreport.com/review/27062/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-only-two-remain-after-1-5pb


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