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I think they've used dual-actuator trickery for the past few years to nearly break through the SATA speed barrier, but nothing about HDDs is ideal except for $/TB and having some better characteristics than tape.hard drives are still limited by an increasingly obsolete ~300mbps transfer rate in the best of circumstances and they're both totally ripe for a new technology to wipe them out. i don't really know if quantum chungus crystals would wipe out hard drives, but it would definitely wipe out tapes.
Western Digital quietly producing dual-actuator disk drives (2023)
The performance compared to the HS560 is up to 2x sequential throughput, meaning 582MBps, up to 1.7x random 50/50 read/write performance and up to 37 percent more power efficiency (IOPS/watt, random RW 70/30). Seagate’s twin actuator Exos 2X14 delivers up to to 524MBps. An Exos 18TB drive pumps out up to to 554MBps.
https://x.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1999669507540025474 (archive) (nitter)Moore’s Law is Dead is claiming that Samsung will announce in January that they will be ending sata SSD production.
On that note, Samsung has apparently denied that it will end SATA SSD production. We'll see if that one holds up.
No, Samsung Isn’t Phasing Out of the Consumer SSD Business as the Korean Giant Denies Ongoing Rumors (archive)
The rumor regarding the phasing out of Samsung SATA or other SSDs is false.
- Samsung Electronics spokesperson

