Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
166 points (94.6% liked)
Technology
68131 readers
3474 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I don't know about HDDs but for SSDs they hit a very low price ~~last~~ September 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.
'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?
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.
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.
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.
At this point, yeah, a bit. But it is a common racism to have right now, and the first step on the path to getting rid of it is knowing you have it.
Plus, the headline is really leading in that direction too, the article itself makes it pretty clear that it is a real, reputable product. Their wording in the headline is technically correct, they specifically call it a company "you've likely never encountered" rather than "noone has heard of", the company has already been at the forefront before and announced that they would be again in 2025, this is fulfilling that promise.
China has caught putting harware level vulnerabilities for decades now.
So there's probably backdoors in any Chinese hardware by now. But also in any western hardware.
It's just about who you want to send your data to.
Actually it is mostly the US that has been caught doing that. Not saying others don't do it but the US is the one who is bad enough at it to get caught regularly.
load more comments
(3 replies)
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.
load more comments
(6 replies)
finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌
You can finally store half a call of duty game on a single drive !
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
“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.
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
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.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Yeah really. It's been years since I saw a 90m movie.
Honestly, that size of drive doesn't need a comparison. This isn't for your average user, so you don't need to dumb it down for them.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Regardless of where it’s made hopefully it brings down the price of drives for the rest of us.
Resiliency dilemma. Which type of redundancy to choose.
can I put this thing in a laptop or is it made for a bigger computer like a desktop?
view more: next ›