Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?
I don’t know about HDDs but for SSDs they hit a very low price
lastSeptember 2023, and the companies decided to cut production so the prices go up again. It worked, today SSD drives are more expensive than last year. I bet they did something similar to the HDD, but it’s only hypothetical.I feel like we may have hit a temporary halt on memory getting cheaper. I have an 8TB HDD and the prices of them have remained remarkably steady for how long I have had it.
can I put this thing in a laptop or is it made for a bigger computer like a desktop?
‘Chineese startup nobody has heard of.’
…am… I racist for immediately thinking scam? Like… they shoved a couple thumb drives in a fancy case level of scam?
No no its just sad reality that china is build on scam. Its a core value in their society, sadly
Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it “a core value in their society” is a bit racist.
No. It really is. Since the cultural Revolution, china has lost its manners. Gutter Oil, tofu drag, taking a whole “all you can eat” for yourself and ruining it with paper and spices for others, demanding money from a newly wed couple (originally it is that you give a few a red envelope with money. People close to you) eventhough you dont have anything to do with them, fake meat, glue instead of milk, fake tofu (its stirofome if you are lucky) and i can count more. Shooting birds with a slingshot, when in japan, carving spiritual shrines and cutting down/damaging/shaking off the cherry blossom trees
Its so so sad.
I would say it’s bad because the only reason low quality products exist from China is because there is a company ordering them, typically American. All of our expensive tech comes from there any you haven’t heard of most of those companies
Yeah but how is that not China’s fault too? Americans buy cheap products from there because China pays their employees pennies.
Imagine there’s like a super rich country where everybody gets paid at least 10x what you do. And they order crap from the company you work at.
It’s just the way it is in the world. A new gpu costs the same in my country, but median pay is like 2-4x less. So basically imagine if a new gpu costs 3000$ instead of 1k. Obligatory nvidia f you.
From what I understand their minimum wages aren’t bad, it’s the enforcement that sucks. Everyone buys from them because labor laws are overlooked, but if they weren’t - there’s a risk manufacturing would move away and shrink. Bit of an ouroboros. I’d say both parties are to blame, but the paying one gets more of it.
startup nobody has heard of
There, now that sentence isn’t racist because that sounds like a scam without any additional details.
But it is a startup you’ve probably never encountered, which is saying more about them not being known outside of their home country which is a bit different.
Resiliency dilemma. Which type of redundancy to choose.
finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
You can finally store half a call of duty game on a single drive !
“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”
This is less useful than libraries of congress.
I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.
I meant the measure quoted
Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.
It doesn’t say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless
It’s a ballpark average. The point is that it translates to “a holy shit ton of movies”. I need to store a holy shit ton of movies.
Make sure you make backups - it’s better to have multiple small drives in case of failure than one big, but in any case 3-2-1 backups!
I only 3-2-1 my photos and configs. No need to back up my Linux isos
Buy a dozen and you could fit a good chunk of LibGen.
Regardless of where it’s made hopefully it brings down the price of drives for the rest of us.
drives down the price
Sounds like a typical scam
And you sound like a typical ignorant American going “it’s Chinese so it must be bullshit”
They’ve earned their reputation.
By producing everything you use in life?
Don’t buy cheap shit you won’t get cheaply made shit.
You’re right. If I don’t buy cheap shit, I won’t get cheap shit. And since “made in China” is a byword for cheap shit, I try to avoid Chinese products.
My home was made in America. My car was assembled in America, and afaik, most of the parts came from Mexico and Japan. My microwave is Japanese. My shirt is from Taiwan. My computer is made from a ton of chips, Taiwan chip fabs. My tools are all made in America. I can go on.
Very little of what I have was made in China. Because China makes “cheap shit”. Your words, not mine.
I try to avoid Chinese products
What are you using to talk to us right now? What kind of smartphone/tablet/desktop/laptop do you use? What makes you think cheap Chinese stuff is of inferior quality than cheap American stuff? Cheap is cheap.
I don’t think you’re trying to do shit. I think you’re just being a bigot and going off 90s style. I get it, the 90s are kind of cool again to folks, but being casually bigoted is still not ok. It wasn’t ok then and it’s not ok now.
Basically anything that uses an electric current in your house has China’s hand in it at this point. You need to grow up. Again, cheap is cheap.
I sincerely doubt that. And last I checked, most chip fabs were not in China. There’s a lot in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. And there’s plenty in damn near every western country. Even the Netherlands has a few.
You need to realize that countries other than China have industry.
I do realize that. You’re still being prejudiced for no good reason.
Nearly every company in the world that has an international presence uses chinese parts somewhere. And no, you racist count, made in china is not a word for cheap shit, it’s a word for made in a factory. You can’t avoid chinese products at this stage of capitalism. Your made in japan microwave? It was assembled in japan. It was made in china hence why you can get the brand less version for half price on aliexpress.
Country labeling is a joke, wherever the final assembly takes place is where the label gets put on, specially because racists like you are too stupid to tell the difference and it sincerely hasn’t mattered since before most people were born.
China does everything better than the US. iPhones are made in China.
Yeah, like slaves! America is so bad with slaves, we gave it up 150 years ago! But China, China is rolling the slaves! China perfected slavery!
the US constitution specifically has a carve-out that allows using prisoners as slaves
So what? China has slaves galore! A veritable slave emporium! A slave for every man woman and child. That is, if women had rights in China.
