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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
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Can somebody do anything with a normal consumer in mind these days? 😭
Not until somebody shuts off the investor money faucet for AI. Then they'll come crawling back — although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world's governments about wanting a bailout.
But hey, look at the bright side. We've already had the cryptocurrency mining boom and bust, and "AI" boom and soon to be bust. There's still time for some idiot to invent the next tech scam fad which will conveniently require a shitload of hardware for no recognizably useful purpose.
Ahem… Whining? Wanting? Try instructing. They own the governments so they will just tell them to do it, and it will be done.
And don't forget the part where, whether they get a bailout or not, they'll still have to double the prices of everything to make up for all the money they lost on that stupid AI bubble exploding in their face (which all of us are somehow to blame for, obviously, which is why we have to pay them back for it)
No, and it's by design.
You're gonna lease a tablet and use cloud-based storage services and like it.
The dystopia is here.
Hp is doing laptop rental for non-commercial customers only.
Back to the 70s and early 80s....
Yeah, adding all the surveillance technology developed in the last 40 years, so you dont dare to take your eyes out of the display, for example.
That fuck you mean? You can use these drives for any purpose you want.
140 TB is a whole heck of a lot of movies and TV shows
Imagine buying one for cheap because it has some bad blocks and it’s unreliable to keep real valuable data on it! I have a 8 TB HDD bought for like less than a $100 a decade ago, from a friend though, as he had some bad blocks there. I host only media for the HTPC there, but it’s been a solid all these years. And when it dies, sad, but nothing valuable that I cannot redownload.
It's about the storage I have in my server right now - using 15 drives ☠️
It's about half of mine, with about 30 drives. Whatcha running?
I'm running a TrueNAS build which has just grown in time. Started off at 5x8TB drives, then added 5x16TB drives and just last week added another 5x26TB drives (that was costly ☠️). It's all running in a very cheap case using an old threadripper machine I had (2950x), which thankfully supports ECC (128GB purchased years ago before the sillyness).
Normal consumers can install jellyfin. At some point they'll make downloading a crime, they wouldn't hurt people to have a decent collection of stuff ready for that day.
That point was Jan 23rd. https://torrentfreak.com/ripping-clips-for-youtube-reaction-videos-can-violate-the-dmca-court-rules/
oh shit, how the hell did I miss that.
Well, that's a target market right now. Intel GPUs are doing better than expected, I think, thanks to all the big corporations abandoning "normal consumers".
Does data take up less room when it's being used by AI?
No, quite the opposite. Models are largely a mass of random looking numbers that can't be compressed losslessly.