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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I work tech support for a NAS company and the ratio of HDDs to SSDs is roughly 85-15. Sometimes people use SSDs for stuff that requires low latency, but most commonly they're used as a cache for HDDs in my experience.

[–] preasket@lemy.lol 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not much point in using SSDs in a NAS if it's there just for holding your files

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lower power usage and smaller and maaaaaaaaybe better reliability. I’d probably do it if it was cost competitive… but it’s not yet.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 points 8 months ago

Smaller doesn't matter if they're going in a 3.5" tray. There are some models that only come with 2.5" trays, but go figure, the only 2.5" model that isn't a 5-figure all-flash enterprise-scale model is one of our least popular models

[–] CaptainProton@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If the NAS supports tiered storage, you benefit from high I/O performance for things like video editing.

My home storage is a NAS connected over 10GbE, I never bothered trying to play games off of it, but I'll bet they'd run great. Read & write over the network at 10 gigabit is faster on a machine with (separate) RAID arrays of SSDs and HDDs than internal SATA3 connectivity which is kind of bonkers for a home user. Plus that has virtual machines and cloud backups running on the NAS side.