Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?
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I don't know about HDDs but for SSDs they hit a very low price ~~last~~ September 2023, and the companies decided to cut production so the prices go up again. It worked, today SSD drives are more expensive than last year. I bet they did something similar to the HDD, but it's only hypothetical.
I feel like we may have hit a temporary halt on memory getting cheaper. I have an 8TB HDD and the prices of them have remained remarkably steady for how long I have had it.
“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”
This is less useful than libraries of congress.
I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.
Make sure you make backups - it’s better to have multiple small drives in case of failure than one big, but in any case 3-2-1 backups!
I only 3-2-1 my photos and configs. No need to back up my Linux isos
I meant the measure quoted
Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.
It doesn't say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless
It’s a ballpark average. The point is that it translates to “a holy shit ton of movies”. I need to store a holy shit ton of movies.
Buy a dozen and you could fit a good chunk of LibGen.
Honestly, that size of drive doesn't need a comparison. This isn't for your average user, so you don't need to dumb it down for them.
Yeah really. It's been years since I saw a 90m movie.
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finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌
You can finally store half a call of duty game on a single drive !
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
'Chineese startup nobody has heard of.'
...am... I racist for immediately thinking scam? Like.. they shoved a couple thumb drives in a fancy case level of scam?
At this point, yeah, a bit. But it is a common racism to have right now, and the first step on the path to getting rid of it is knowing you have it.
Plus, the headline is really leading in that direction too, the article itself makes it pretty clear that it is a real, reputable product. Their wording in the headline is technically correct, they specifically call it a company "you've likely never encountered" rather than "noone has heard of", the company has already been at the forefront before and announced that they would be again in 2025, this is fulfilling that promise.
China has caught putting harware level vulnerabilities for decades now.
So there's probably backdoors in any Chinese hardware by now. But also in any western hardware.
It's just about who you want to send your data to.
Actually it is mostly the US that has been caught doing that. Not saying others don't do it but the US is the one who is bad enough at it to get caught regularly.
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I would say it’s bad because the only reason low quality products exist from China is because there is a company ordering them, typically American. All of our expensive tech comes from there any you haven’t heard of most of those companies
Yeah but how is that not China's fault too? Americans buy cheap products from there because China pays their employees pennies.
From what I understand their minimum wages aren't bad, it's the enforcement that sucks. Everyone buys from them because labor laws are overlooked, but if they weren't - there's a risk manufacturing would move away and shrink. Bit of an ouroboros. I'd say both parties are to blame, but the paying one gets more of it.
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startup nobody has heard of
There, now that sentence isn't racist because that sounds like a scam without any additional details.
But it is a startup you've probably never encountered, which is saying more about them not being known outside of their home country which is a bit different.
No no its just sad reality that china is build on scam. Its a core value in their society, sadly
Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it "a core value in their society" is a bit racist.
No. It really is. Since the cultural Revolution, china has lost its manners. Gutter Oil, tofu drag, taking a whole "all you can eat" for yourself and ruining it with paper and spices for others, demanding money from a newly wed couple (originally it is that you give a few a red envelope with money. People close to you) eventhough you dont have anything to do with them, fake meat, glue instead of milk, fake tofu (its stirofome if you are lucky) and i can count more. Shooting birds with a slingshot, when in japan, carving spiritual shrines and cutting down/damaging/shaking off the cherry blossom trees
Its so so sad.
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Regardless of where it’s made hopefully it brings down the price of drives for the rest of us.
drives down the price
Sounds like a typical scam
Sure, six vendors all decided to release scam SSDs of similar sizes.
They also decided to only scam chinese people, as it's only available there.
Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?
Yes, that's what I was reffering to. My comment was an addemdum to yours and still replying to OPs statement.
Sorry for the confusion
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I know reading is really hard for you, but if you do, you'd learn that this is just another company doing the same thing that the big names like Samsung and Sandisk have already done.
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