Not only irrelevant, but also false.

KGB tried the same, but they lost.

Well, ads pay for bills, and most devs have a food and shelter habit…

But it will be written in Schwiizerdütch, so no one outside of Switzerland will understand it. I think it’s a dialect of Perl.

No mention of the number for previous years, so a bit useless metric…

Not if you wirte the message using invisible ink.

Fair enough, for Germany there’s no chance of paying such low taxes. And when I checked there were no deals, 160 bucks for a 6 TB HDD, and 20 TB are all $400+.

And my media library (Kodi gang) sits at around 2 TB at the moment, plus maybe 500GB of photos and documents, and some work files, so one 4 TB drive is enough for everything, my 8 TB NAS and 8 TB USB HDD are just backups now, plus some rarely accessed data (steam library, for instance).

Where popcorn?

Any base on those claims that batteries aren’t going to get cheaper? They have been for 15 years. There is still progress to be made. There are LFP that get rod of cobalt. There are sodium batteries in testing that will reduce lithium demand.

I have the opposite, fans are silent (mix of noctua and silent wings), disk activity can be heard quite clearly if the room is silent.

Yep, we pay something around 40 cents, depending on your contract. In 2022 it even went above 60 cents for a few months :(

I don’t trust shipping internationally. More chance of damage, plus import duties, plus tax, plus difficulties for RMA or warranty.

The conclusion is similar tho: SSDs are only 2 times more expensive (not 7 as the article claims) and that makes it worth it for me given all the advantages the offer.

I compared cheapest per TB. The HDDs were most efficient at 18TB, the SSDs at 2 or 4 TB.

There is a substantial difference indeed, now the setup is basically silent (I don’t load the CPU enough for the fan to kick in).

Sure, ECB.

Ok, like 100 bucks for 16-18 SATA controllers, assuming the mobo comes with 6.

Maybe regional differences. I’ve been looking for 3 days last week and have found anything under 20 EUR per TB, more like 25 for non-sketchy sites. For new drives, I’d never buy a refurbished again. SSDs are similarly priced, around 50 per TB for brand named ones.

My 4 bay HDD NAS uses around 45W, 50W with some light load, 70W spinning up. That’s about 1kWh per day, or 150 EUR per year.

I use it in my room, so I very much care about noise.

More durability = less redundancy (less cost) + less frequent swaps (less cost). My anecdotal evidence is 1 failed SSD in 15 years (160GB Intel, basically first Gen). Every other SSD is still working. I have a drawer full of failed HDDs.

Plus more performance.