| ▲ | vb-8448 10 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
I used to work in datacenters, during spinning disk era we had technicians from vendors basically every couple of days to replace some broken part. When the massive switch to ssd happened instead of having them every couple of days it was 3 or 4 times per month. Despite no moving parts things broke anyway and, even if it doesn't break, the vendor can make you change the technology just by playing with maintenance cost of the older one, limiting or removing spare parts from the market. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | _fizz_buzz_ 9 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
My understanding is that a lot of AI data centers are still heavily relying on spinning HDDs, which is why seagate, western digital are selling more HDDs than ever before. | |||||||||||||||||
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