• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    26 days ago

    Spinning platter capacity can’t keep up with SSDs. HDDs are just starting to break the 30TB mark and SSDs are shipping 50+. The cost delta per TB is closing fast. You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash, so you get better utilization.

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      26 days ago

      You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash

      As you can with spinning disks. Nothing about flash makes this a special feature.