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How come laptops are shrinking hard drives?
Posted on 10/15/20 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 10/15/20 at 6:53 pm
Looking at a new one and suddenly the hard drives are much smaller whereas a couple of years ago 1tb was the norm.
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Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:02 pm to prplhze2000
Due to the fact that cloud storage is bigger than ever and things are steaming
Overall public less the need to store all those pics and movies when a service/ storage and or a cloud pc can store them.
That and some models are opting for ssd and to keep price down, they are also keeping storage size lower
Overall public less the need to store all those pics and movies when a service/ storage and or a cloud pc can store them.
That and some models are opting for ssd and to keep price down, they are also keeping storage size lower
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:34 pm to deltadon
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That and some models are opting for ssd
It's 100% this and not the other points
Posted on 10/16/20 at 5:25 am to bluebarracuda
I store everything important on either a cloud service or external HD. Why would I need all that storage on a single device anymore that will eventually be replaced.
Posted on 10/16/20 at 3:35 pm to prplhze2000
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Looking at a new one and suddenly the hard drives are much smaller whereas a couple of years ago 1tb was the norm.
Pretty much all laptops have SSD drives now.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 7:06 am to prplhze2000
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Looking at a new one and suddenly the hard drives are much smaller whereas a couple of years ago 1tb was the norm.
Because they're nvme drives, which are orders of magnitude faster than spinning disks. The trade off is that they're much more expensive. Even 1TB nvme drives are more affordable now than ever though.
This post was edited on 10/17/20 at 7:08 am
Posted on 10/17/20 at 10:45 am to prplhze2000
I have a 2TB SSD on my new MBP. I wish I could have afforded the 8TB. 4K videos at 60FPS eats through massive amounts of storage.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 3:52 pm to NPComb
Are you in the professional video editing business or something? I don’t think I’ll use 8 TB for the rest of my life.
Posted on 10/18/20 at 2:55 pm to tlsu15
I save and edit some videos.
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