why hasn't their been more focus on making high capacity 2.5" drives?
wouldn't they be better for data centers to use since they take up less space?
>>53738572
They get hotter, are more expensive to make, have higher failure rates, etc.
>>53738572
"...better for data centers...?"
It's just an inch...
How much fucking storage space do you need in a 2.5" hard drive? Besides, SSDs are moving in much faster - Samsung just introduced a 16TB SSD, yes, 16 motherfuckin' terabytes and they will probably push out a 32TB model by the end of the year.
While you or I can't afford such monstrous amounts of storage, businesses crave it and will pay princely sums of cash for it because it translates into extremely fast data retrieval at this point in time with less power requirements and maintenance. The sheer fact that hard drives are still able to function for extended periods of time considering they're physical devices with actual moving parts plays into things.
SSDs are the paradigm shift, hard drives are on the way out for most everything except just plain old raw storage - and by raw storage I mean data that needs to be stored for long periods of time but not necessarily accessed with any speed requirements.
If every hard drive on the planet could be replaced instantly with SSDs of equivalent sizes, anywhere and everywhere at the same moment, everything would just work more efficiently.
16 fucking terabytes in one drive, sweet jebus I wish I had one of those I really do.
there is an initiative on it op
its just that ssds are taking the spotlight
theres HAMR and one other technology being developed to increase data density
>>53738666
SELF CHECK
>>53738617
it's more than just an inch
you can fit nearly 2 times as many drives in the same space
>>53738647
yes but there is also the issue of reliability of SSDs. from what I here the TLC NANDs are much less reliable in the long term than MLC SSDs and Hard drives
>>53738572
2TB isnt enough for you?
because datacenters care about reliability, that is you see them filled with 300 gig SAS drives
>>53738744
It's actually 4x as many - turn the 2.5" sideways 2x2 and stacked 2 high.
>>53738788
true
