tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post4205921075735346275..comments2024-03-28T13:39:27.601-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Betteridge's Law ViolationDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-19519866980015865682018-10-23T07:15:17.625-07:002018-10-23T07:15:17.625-07:00Chris Mellor at The Register reports on quarterly ...Chris Mellor at <i>The Register</i> <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/seagate_and_western_digital_nearline_drive_neck_and_necking/" rel="nofollow">reports on quarterly drive shipments</a>:<br /><br />"Total capacity shipped reached 230EB, up 31 per cent annually. Total enterprise capacity shipped was 113.5EB, up 71 per cent."<br /><br />Two points:<br /><br />1) That is adding data center storage capacity at nearly half a Zettabyte a year, which puts Bhat's 6ZB gap into perspective.<br /><br />2) Nearline data center drives are half of total drive production. The transition of the hard drive market to data centers is progressing rapidly.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-29989775958576508742018-10-19T13:55:19.132-07:002018-10-19T13:55:19.132-07:00This is something I repeatedly run up against myse...This is something I repeatedly run up against myself, though I didn't think about the notion of data lifetime and media re-use (stealing, with attribution to you ;))<br /><br />Broadly, I tend to think: <br />1) The forecasts are inaccurate, or at the very least, very misleading. Leading to<br />2) The data isn't actually that valuable to begin to with/we haven't figured out get sufficient value out of it. Ian F. Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10219820462361912576noreply@blogger.com