I hear from my data center friends that as HDD gets bigger the IOPS get lower and are unusable for cloud providers. Even with dual actuator it only gets HDD to 2025. Is this true?
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4, 6, 8 actuators. The drive will then need to have a liquid cooling system radiator attached to the top so it doesn’t melt down
HDD is for cold storage at best at this point. Tape is for deep freeze. The STX narrative that a lot of data is being created and has to be stored, therefore there is a place for HDD is flawed. Tape will have a resurgence and compete with HDD as HAMR does not scale and STX needs higher prices to pay for its dividends.
Yep. That's why we could offer a nice SSD/HDD blended solutions but our cloud customers are light years ahead of our own "life" approach so there's that.
Yes, survives. Not a thriving company that you want to be a part of or even have on your resume. Get out while the labor market is great for seekers.
even if all chip manufacturers build nand flash only and no other chips at all....hdd still survives
This is not new and the STX propaganda machine keeps trying to shut it down but just talk to AWS, Azure, and Goog. IOPS are a problem after 24TB.
The belittling of the original poster's comment demonstrates a "reality" nerve has been struck.
@OP+1cL2CKNj is your friend working as a cleaner in the data center?
It is true. HDD needs to keep adding actuators and cost until it makes sense to just do ssd/nand at data center. Before STX propaganda jumps in, HAMR does not fix this.
I guess that your friend is working as a security guard in one of the data centers