Are hard drives dead? 8TB M.2 SSD

SSDs have come a long way since the early SATA II days, but capacity has always lagged behind hard drives... Enter Sabrent Rocket Q. But can QLC be any good?

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Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[jairopo]

He really just did the impossible ladies and gentlemen... he un-voided his warranty! what a LEGEND!

[tech]

Sees size: “holy ****”
Sees price: “holy ****”

[KayakithLebita]

By the time I can afford this, Linus be like:
" *are SSDs dead?* "

[WarMonkeyPlays]

HDD: Am I dead?
SSD: Yes
SSD's $2, 000 Price Tag: Yes, but actually no.

[bignate]

This has more storage than every pc in my house combined.

[adoksym]

"Available for you"
No. No, it's not.

[Aaron-tqpf]

“Are hard drives dead?” *Sees price of high capacity SSDs* “No, no they are not”

[vxela]

"Are HDDs dead?"
*Proceeds to show an SSD thats worth more than high end gaming rigs*

[lowres]

"Are hard drives dead?"

Given they don't cost 2 grand I'm gonna go ahead and say no.

[TommyTonk]

The real question:

8TB SSD
or
Full Gaming PC
Which is better value?

[halfeddi]

Another episode of: "I Can't Afford It"

[SonicDestiny]

Oh i just got one of these in my pc as well

[equesta]

Linus: "Amazing how heavy this [8TB] thing is"
Me: Remembers moving washing-machine size 20MB hard drives.

[ctrlectrld]

"This SSD has more ram than a lot of Chromebooks"

Well that SSD costs like 4 Chromebooks

[leoperez]

"This SSD has 2GB of ram. That's more than a lot of chromebooks." Ouch.

[DayWarrior]

I distinctly remember begging my mom for a 240 gb ssd that was nearly $300. Now, I'm building a pc with a 2 TB nvme ssd that only costs $250. It's amazing how fast storage tech has developed in the last decade.

[busdriver]

when you realize that the SSD costs more than the actual laptop

[gqcikgw]

- Are hard drives dead?

My wallet: _no_

[chrxzzyy]

Linus: "Are hard drives dead?"
My wallet: "no"

[PeteTheGeek]

We're making the same climb with SSDs that we made with HDDs. I still remember installing my first 4TB HDD, looking at it's capacity in File Explorer and wondering how long it would take to fill up all that space. A few years later, and I'm filling a 6TB HDD every 4 months.