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<blockquote data-quote="Digerati" data-source="post: 768626" data-attributes="member: 59833"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite111" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> Gee whiz. It sure would be nice if people did their home work before making such absolute and false claims. I sure don't assume I know it all. So I verify my facts before posting so I don't make false and/or incorrect absolute claims. What a concept, huh? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite119" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p><p></p><p>Why would <a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/data-center-ssds/view-all.html" target="_blank">Intel</a>, <a href="http://www.eweek.com/storage/faster-more-durable-solid-state-storage-coming-to-data-centers" target="_blank">Micron</a>, <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/13322/samsung-launches-broad-range-of-datacenter-ssds" target="_blank">Samsung</a>, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2503547/data-center/hgst-announces-12gbps-sas-ssds-for-use-in-enterprise-data-centers.html" target="_blank">HGST</a> (and others) make SSDs for Data Centers if there wasn't a market for them?</p><p></p><p>Just a few seconds to check with Bing Google would show there are some Data Centers currently using SSDs. Some use them exclusively, others use them in hybrid setups with traditional hard drives. NOT hybrid drives, but SSDs and hard drives working together. That is, they use SSDs as faster buffers and caches for hard drives and higher priority data. Like RAMDisks or functionally like dedicated page file SSDs supporting hard drives.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebooks-ssd-experience/" target="_blank">Facebook has been using SSDs in their data centers for years. </a> It is their early adoption that has exposed many of the advantages and disadvantages to using SSDs. But the conclusion is the advantages outweigh the disadvantage - at least if your criteria/priority is the same as Facebook's.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2012/06/flash-data-centers/" target="_blank">Amazon and Dropbox</a> also use SSDs.</p><p></p><p>Yes, hard drives are still widely used and will likely be for years to come. But then I never said SSDs have (or will soon) totally replace hard drives - though I believe one day they will. SSD prices continue to drop while densities increase. And hard disk platter densities are already pushing theoretical limits. Hard drives are too slow, big, heavy, slow, mechanical, power hungry, slow, and hard drives generate more heat. Did I mention they are slow too?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Digerati, post: 768626, member: 59833"] :( Gee whiz. It sure would be nice if people did their home work before making such absolute and false claims. I sure don't assume I know it all. So I verify my facts before posting so I don't make false and/or incorrect absolute claims. What a concept, huh? :rolleyes: Why would [URL='https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/data-center-ssds/view-all.html']Intel[/URL], [URL='http://www.eweek.com/storage/faster-more-durable-solid-state-storage-coming-to-data-centers']Micron[/URL], [URL='https://www.anandtech.com/show/13322/samsung-launches-broad-range-of-datacenter-ssds']Samsung[/URL], [URL='https://www.computerworld.com/article/2503547/data-center/hgst-announces-12gbps-sas-ssds-for-use-in-enterprise-data-centers.html']HGST[/URL] (and others) make SSDs for Data Centers if there wasn't a market for them? Just a few seconds to check with Bing Google would show there are some Data Centers currently using SSDs. Some use them exclusively, others use them in hybrid setups with traditional hard drives. NOT hybrid drives, but SSDs and hard drives working together. That is, they use SSDs as faster buffers and caches for hard drives and higher priority data. Like RAMDisks or functionally like dedicated page file SSDs supporting hard drives. [URL='https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebooks-ssd-experience/']Facebook has been using SSDs in their data centers for years. [/URL] It is their early adoption that has exposed many of the advantages and disadvantages to using SSDs. But the conclusion is the advantages outweigh the disadvantage - at least if your criteria/priority is the same as Facebook's. [URL='https://www.wired.com/2012/06/flash-data-centers/']Amazon and Dropbox[/URL] also use SSDs. Yes, hard drives are still widely used and will likely be for years to come. But then I never said SSDs have (or will soon) totally replace hard drives - though I believe one day they will. SSD prices continue to drop while densities increase. And hard disk platter densities are already pushing theoretical limits. Hard drives are too slow, big, heavy, slow, mechanical, power hungry, slow, and hard drives generate more heat. Did I mention they are slow too? [/QUOTE]
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