rmay635703 wrote on Yesterday, 20:51:

Yeah 8tb ssds used to be about $500 for a commodity one, back in ye olde 2024 […]
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Dimos wrote on Yesterday, 20:42:

SanDisk's new 8TB PS5 SSD costs $2,959.99, more than three times as much as the PS5 Pro.

https://www.engadget.com/2196530/sandisks-new … as-the-ps5-pro/

Yeah 8tb ssds used to be about $500 for a commodity one, back in ye olde 2024

At the rate we are going the IBM PC 5150 will become the home computer for offline gaming, typing and spreadsheet work.

They will have to relaunch color dot matrix ribbon production.

I realize you are being sarcastic, but realistically things can only get so bad before the indie market starts taking over. Homemade lithography etc. I'm not worried.

As for the SSDs, thank god for RAID 😀

tcaud wrote on Today, 05:25:

rmay635703 wrote on Yesterday, 20:51:

Yeah 8tb ssds used to be about $500 for a commodity one, back in ye olde 2024 […]
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Dimos wrote on Yesterday, 20:42:

SanDisk's new 8TB PS5 SSD costs $2,959.99, more than three times as much as the PS5 Pro.

https://www.engadget.com/2196530/sandisks-new … as-the-ps5-pro/

Yeah 8tb ssds used to be about $500 for a commodity one, back in ye olde 2024

At the rate we are going the IBM PC 5150 will become the home computer for offline gaming, typing and spreadsheet work.

They will have to relaunch color dot matrix ribbon production.

I realize you are being sarcastic, but realistically things can only get so bad before the indie market starts taking over. Homemade lithography etc. I'm not worried.

As for the SSDs, thank god for RAID 😀

I'm not bashing spinning rust or Raid here but.

I know you are trying to be upbeat here but conventional spinning rust Raid cannot ever get close to matching a NVME SSD, the one I have transfers at 14Gb/s burst and yes it can hit those speeds even its more normal transfer speeds are between 8 - 12 Gb/s. Raid speeds at best is cope and at worst a raid 0 with no backup. Even a lowly still cheap PCIe 3.0 NVME can still move data far faster than any Raid could hope to hit.

Now if you were talking about capacity . .well yes spinning rust wins that race by a very large margin and really that's its intended purpose and one its perfect for.

Or perhaps you were talking about a more exotic type of Raid using cheap PCIe 3.0 SSDs .. now that would be a fun setup.