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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

For the context of bulk consumer storage (or even SOHO NAS) that's irrelevant, though, because people are already happily using spinning mechanical 3.5" hard drives for this purpose, and they're all already SATA. Therefore there's no logical reason to worry about the physical size or slower write speeds of packing a bunch of flash chips into the same sized enclosure for those particular use cases.

There are reasons a big old SSD would be suitable for this. Silence, reliability, no spin up delay, resistance to outside mechanical forces, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure it makes sense: Pretty much noone, but you, is going to buy them, and stocking shelves and warehouses with product costs money. All that unmoved stock would make them more expensive, making even more people not buy them. It's inefficient.