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		dehrmann on May 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Suggestions to host 10TB data with a month... It looks like HDD prices are at ~40% of SSD prices (new drives, not cloud-hosted). SSDs are starting to make sense for more things, now.

ComputerGuru on May 27, 2023 [–]

That comparison only holds for the smaller sizes.

dehrmann on May 27, 2023 | [–]

For an 8 TB SSD and 18 TB HDD, it's more like 3x.

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