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Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
(www.theguardian.com)
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Those cheap drives will have been run really hard, though. I don't know how much I'd trust them with anything important.
We'll all be running RAID, buying 18TBs by the dozen
Pretty much what I was thinking except at the 24-26TB level lol 😎
Same but like 3-4TB 🥸
Same but 4G
True it depends largely on the manufacturer of the drives but yah agreed, likely to be used harder than your typical large scale vps/web server hosting company but, still, its gotta help the pricing market some because its just bonkers expensive now for used drives.