Hacker News with Generative AI: SSDs

Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives? (2021) (backblaze.com)
Solid-state drives (SSDs) continue to become more and more a part of the data storage landscape. And while our SSD 101 series has covered topics like upgrading, troubleshooting, and recycling your SSDs, we’d like to test one of the more popular declarations from SSD proponents: that SSDs fail much less often than our old friend, the hard disk drive (HDD).

Data Storage, Hardware, Reliability, SSDs, HDDs

76 points by fanf2 2 days ago | 68 comments

SanDisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap, has yet to reveal release date (tomshardware.com)

Storage, Hardware, SSDs, Roadmaps

5 points by LorenDB 4 days ago | 0 comments

PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P (level1techs.com)

Storage, Hardware, Troubleshooting, SSDs, Motherboards

167 points by transpute 56 days ago | 105 comments

Intel Arc B580 with two M.2 slots, Maxsun offers storage expansion for SSDs (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Graphics Cards, Hardware, SSDs, Storage

5 points by haunter 62 days ago | 0 comments

How Proxmox VE shreds your SSDs – with details (reddit.com)
Time has come to revisit the initial piece on inexplicable writes that even empty Proxmox VE cluster makes, especially we have already covered what we are looking at: a completely virtual filesystem 1 with a structure that is completely generated on-the-fly, some of which never really exists in any persistent state - that is what lies behind the mountpoint of /etc/pve and what the process of pmxcfs created the illusion of.

Virtualization, Storage, Proxmox, SSDs, Linux

9 points by free-pmx 63 days ago | 4 comments

Raspberry Pi announces branded range of NVMe SSDs and SSD kit (tomshardware.com)

Raspberry Pi, Hardware, Storage, SSDs, New Releases

32 points by LorenDB 121 days ago | 51 comments

The formatting of Oracle-branded HGST SSDs (2021) (wanhunglo.com)

Hardware, Storage, Data, SSDs

46 points by userbinator 181 days ago | 8 comments

Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets (ycombinator.com)

Samsung, SSDs, Consumer Electronics, Market Research, Pricing

66 points by the4anoni 222 days ago | 22 comments

GPUs can now use PCIe-attached memory or SSDs to boost VRAM capacity (tomshardware.com)

GPUs, Memory, Hardware, SSDs

12 points by westurner 234 days ago | 5 comments

GPUs can now use PCIe-attached memory or SSDs to boost VRAM capacity (tomshardware.com)