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    News Seagate Ships First 30TB+ HAMR Hard Drives

    While it is always great to see a major leap in HDD capacity; I sincerely doubt that we will see a significant speed improvement with these drives. Other than the natural speedup you get from an increase in areal density (i.e. each rotation of a single track contains more data blocks); about the...
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    News AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X Flagship CPU Hits New Low of $499: Real Deals

    I upgraded my PC last September with both these components (5950x and Rocket 4 Plus SSD) and I paid almost $1000 for both. Now they are $626 together. Oh, well.... They are still lightning fast at DB queries on the new engine I created. See the demo at View...
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    News AMD's Ryzen Surpasses Intel at Puget Systems as Sales Boom

    I just wish I could buy a 5950x processor without having to pay a 50% premium on ebay. It has now been 5 months since AMD released its 5000 series processors and they still have a major supply problem. Everyone is out of stock. My 10 year old system is getting long in the tooth and rather than...
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    WD Plots A Course To 40TB HDDs With MAMR

    SSD may NEVER replace HDD for bulk storage. SSD prices have not fallen much at all over the past few years. They are still more than 10x as expensive as HDD per TB. Things like this will make it even harder, but even if HDD stays at its current state, I wonder if SSD will ever be cheaper. Now...
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    Samsung's Next Gen NVMe SSDs Appear Online

    SSD prices have not come down for several years now. I bought a 256GB SSD for $75 almost 3 years ago and they are the same price today. $430 for 1 TB is still about 15x more expensive than HDD space. A small SSD to store your most accessed data makes a lot of sense, but I laugh every time I...
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    WD Plots A Course To 40TB HDDs With MAMR

    The biggest problem is trying to manage all the data you can put on these mammoth sized disks. If the average file size is around 1/2 MB, that means you could put something close to 80 million files on just one of these drives. File systems require metadata for each and every file. A fixed...
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    AMD Ryzen 1800X Appears Sold Out At Some Retailers

    I am developing a new multi-threaded data management system that can really take advantage of all the cores/threads for big data operations. It not only can run multiple queries simultaneously, but it can also break a single query into smaller pieces and often run those pieces in parallel...
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    Seagate Readies 12TB HDDs, Plans for 14TB, 16TB Models Next Year

    SSD storage is still a lot more than 5x HDD in cost. You can buy HDD space for about $25/TB. Where can you get a TB SSD for less than about $250? That is a 10x price premium. Just about everyone should have a decent SSD for performance as the prices have come down but it still has a long way to...
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    The Week In Storage: Is There An SSD In That Shiny New Desktop PC? No, There Is Not

    The problem is mainly software. Most of the hardware improvements have been in multiple cores per CPU, expanded instruction sets, SSDs, tons of RAM, and GPUs. Few applications written today exploit those hardware improvements. Users typically don't see any difference between an older PC and a...
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    Deals Sept 23: Dell 24" E2414H Monitor + $100 GC for $200

    Are these "Gift Cards" actually worth anything? Or are they so restrictive that they can only be used to buy goods from a single place for a short period of time with greatly inflated prices and outrageous shipping charges so that in the end you get about $8 worth of real stuff with a $100 card?
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    WD Debuts World's Thinnest 1 TB Hard Drive

    Yes, I too would love to be able to buy a 2 TB SSD for under $100. But until that day comes (maybe never), I will be happy to see even incremental improvements like this one in the HDD industry. This looks like a great improvement for supplying high capacity storage for portable devices where...
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    Toshiba Sampling 64GB UFS-Based NAND chips

    Why is it so difficult to detect and eliminate duplicate comment submissions? Why is it so difficult to detect and eliminate duplicate comment submissions? Why is it so difficult to detect and eliminate duplicate comment submissions?
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    Dell Provides Details on $24.4 Billion Buyout, Lawsuit Surfaces

    So a private equity deal is being put together that is willing to offer existing shareholders 25% more for their shares than the market says they are worth trading on the open market, and some lawyer files suit saying that they are trying to buy it "on the cheap". If I were the judge in that...
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    Analyst: People Are Overpaying Apple for 128 GB iPad 4

    I actually don't mind it when companies charge a lot for upgrades or extra parts as long as they provide an option to go around their "premium service". For the guy who doesn't mind shelling out a bunch of money for the convenience or the name brand of "genuine parts", go ahead an charge an arm...
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    Researchers Discover Way to Extend HDD Storage 5X

    Not sure how this all turned into a HDD vs SSD food fight. My opinion - SSDs are great for certain conditions, but they have a long way to go before they come close to replacing all that HDD space. Just too expensive on the $/GB meter for now. As far as this new discovery...if it turns into...