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Did this article really need ai pic of an HDD when actual pics exist & are freely available?
The prick writing it seems quite pro-slop so I guess in his eyes, it does.
Also the HDD itself is going deep into the mines of slop, so in a way it’s appropriate, still gross tho.
Only AI companies is going to see the things, the way things are going.
How else are they going to get a pic of a square HDD?
They probably have no one who can photoshop „44TB“ on a Hard Drive and don‘t think it‘s worth hiring someone on Fiverr to do it. Media designers, being the creatives that they are were always undervalued and among the first to lose their jobs to AI.
I mean, yes obv, my point was if it was really needed for that.
At the end of the day they still want things to look flashy of course. They know they need a thumbnail to stick out. They don‘t value creative work because it‘s hard to measure and it‘s everywhere. So the question emerges „Oh, how hard can it be when it is everywhere?“ That sentiment is multiplied times 10 since image generation became a thing. The internet already looks like a soulless slop machine because creative work is undervalued but still needed everywhere.
Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.
Likely they are anyway already all “bought” with non-existing money by the usual suspect…
I got some inches to sell you.
Inches of what?
Just inches, bro. All the inches you could ever want.
The dates are “now”
The price is irrelevant, because they aren’t for you or regular consumers. They’re already reserved and being shipped to AI data centers.
It would have been nice to know what the read\write speed was.
The last time I had a Seagate drive, it was 1.2GB
Right, I’m never going back to Seagate. Their drives are shit. Although I do have 2 IronWolf 10TBs setup in raid and they have been going nearly 8 years nonstop now.
I don’t understand the hate against Seagate. I’ve only had Seagate in my PCs and none have failed for me in the span of almost two decades. In fact, the first ones I had are still around not having failed yet.
Seagate drives are like crows - if you don’t get along with one, they tell their friends and harass you. For any given user, either Seagate drives are perfectly fine and last ages no matter what is done to them, or every single one they touch will self destruct with the lightest use for no reason. That it really does seem to vary by user rather than specific models or production runs is the baffling part.
It is possible that Seagate drives don’t handle some adverse conditions or maybe a certain amount of load very well which would lead to consistently good or bad results depending on the person.
lmao that is baffling indeed 😆
That’s the thing I am trying to point out. Like if you get lucky some of their models appear near perfect and seem to keep lasting forever.
But I’ve experienced the other side of the coin where I had a hard hardware failure on a hdd, the warranty and replacement process was insanely painful. Then when I finally got a replacement it also had a failure. Same painful replacement process. The 3rd one wasn’t even the same model but at least it worked.
One of the sister drives of the first one had a hardware failure shortly afterwards. I didn’t even bother going through the RMA process and just migrated to Samsungs.
Or maybe some people just get extremely unlucky? 🤷♂️
I really like my IronWolves. They never gave me issues so far.
I’ve only ever had one Seagate drive in my life and it failed in the first 3 months.
Did it brick after a year of use?
They can suck my dick and balls. None of this benefits the average consumer.
I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.
It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.
My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.
I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.
This take is short-sighted. This same comment could be copy-pasted to 20 years ago when the first 1TB HDD was released. Of course it was stupid expensive. But now you would hardly glance at an HDD under 1TB. Technological progress is fast, and benefits consumers.
I don’t get the responses disagreeing with you. Citing as-yet undefined needs of an AVERAGE consumer while completely disregarding that the people on Lemmy are far more tech-focused and that the average tech level of a consumer is that they can’t even turn the computer off and on again. Almost nobody needs such massive storage, it’s a very niche need. The vast majority would never run out with 1TB. I’ve got 3TB and a huge collection of music, movies and photos I’ve backed up and there’s still room to go. The clowns disagreeing with you are running an -arr stack and thinking “I could fill that…”
aimed at AI-scale data growth.
This is an important part that the responses glossed over. The responders suddenly forgot that they were just recently sold down the river for this aim, and seem to think that it won’t continue.
Are there really articles for every completely expected tech advance like this?
Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.
The consumer market will care. They’ll just be priced so far out of the market, it’ll be unrealistic of them to ever hope to buy one.
Even used drives are expensive, no way I am buying this until it reaches the used drive market, no way it is affordable for normal consumers.
