• rab@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I admin a datacenter and hard drives are never going anywhere. Same with tapes.

    • Eccitaze@yiffit.net
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      10 months ago

      I work tech support for a NAS company and the ratio of HDDs to SSDs is roughly 85-15. Sometimes people use SSDs for stuff that requires low latency, but most commonly they’re used as a cache for HDDs in my experience.

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        10 months ago

        Not much point in using SSDs in a NAS if it’s there just for holding your files

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          10 months ago

          Lower power usage and smaller and maaaaaaaaybe better reliability. I’d probably do it if it was cost competitive… but it’s not yet.

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            10 months ago

            Smaller doesn’t matter if they’re going in a 3.5" tray. There are some models that only come with 2.5" trays, but go figure, the only 2.5" model that isn’t a 5-figure all-flash enterprise-scale model is one of our least popular models

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            10 months ago

            Not sure whether adding more power consuming devices results in less power consumption, though. I guess it depends on drives power usage and files use.

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          10 months ago

          If the NAS supports tiered storage, you benefit from high I/O performance for things like video editing.

          My home storage is a NAS connected over 10GbE, I never bothered trying to play games off of it, but I’ll bet they’d run great. Read & write over the network at 10 gigabit is faster on a machine with (separate) RAID arrays of SSDs and HDDs than internal SATA3 connectivity which is kind of bonkers for a home user. Plus that has virtual machines and cloud backups running on the NAS side.