317

Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters(www.tomshardware.com)

posted
by
Avatar
Lee Duna@lemmy.nz
in
Avatar
technology@lemmy.world
109 comments
hidereport
Sort:
HotTopControversialNewOld
You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
Avatar
dishpanman@lemmy.ca
3 points

$200 for a refurbished 20TB drive on Newegg

The new ones were on sale for $270 so around $10-15 per TB. The best I can find is $40-50 per TB for SSD. Certainly not 7times more expensive but more like 3-5.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
16 points

Yea, you can’t compare consumer to business. Very different. Article is talking about datacenters, which don’t typically rely on consumer grade products.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
2 points

But the person they replied to was talking about consumer drives.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
Tja@programming.dev
2 points

Maybe regional differences. I’ve been looking for 3 days last week and have found anything under 20 EUR per TB, more like 25 for non-sketchy sites. For new drives, I’d never buy a refurbished again. SSDs are similarly priced, around 50 per TB for brand named ones.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

Community stats

  • 18K

    Monthly active users

  • 12K

    Posts

  • 553K

    Comments

Community moderators