Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?
finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
You can finally store half a call of duty game on a single drive !
‘Chineese startup nobody has heard of.’
…am… I racist for immediately thinking scam? Like… they shoved a couple thumb drives in a fancy case level of scam?
At this point, yeah, a bit. But it is a common racism to have right now, and the first step on the path to getting rid of it is knowing you have it.
Plus, the headline is really leading in that direction too, the article itself makes it pretty clear that it is a real, reputable product. Their wording in the headline is technically correct, they specifically call it a company “you’ve likely never encountered” rather than “noone has heard of”, the company has already been at the forefront before and announced that they would be again in 2025, this is fulfilling that promise.
China has caught putting harware level vulnerabilities for decades now.
So there’s probably backdoors in any Chinese hardware by now. But also in any western hardware.
It’s just about who you want to send your data to.
Actually it is mostly the US that has been caught doing that. Not saying others don’t do it but the US is the one who is bad enough at it to get caught regularly.
I would say it’s bad because the only reason low quality products exist from China is because there is a company ordering them, typically American. All of our expensive tech comes from there any you haven’t heard of most of those companies
Yeah but how is that not China’s fault too? Americans buy cheap products from there because China pays their employees pennies.
From what I understand their minimum wages aren’t bad, it’s the enforcement that sucks. Everyone buys from them because labor laws are overlooked, but if they weren’t - there’s a risk manufacturing would move away and shrink. Bit of an ouroboros. I’d say both parties are to blame, but the paying one gets more of it.
startup nobody has heard of
There, now that sentence isn’t racist because that sounds like a scam without any additional details.
But it is a startup you’ve probably never encountered, which is saying more about them not being known outside of their home country which is a bit different.
No because Chinese isn’t a race its a nationality. If you used one of the races there like Han The predominate race there. than yes it would be racist. The Han are in fact often refereed to has the real Chinese. But china is made up of many races not just the one.
Okay bud Chinese 99.999999999% of the time refers to Han. If you ask a Chinese person they will say 中国人, Chinese. Yes Han is the proper nomenclature but no Chinese person would make this argument.
I guess that would depend on whether you think of the country or a race when you think china. I think of the country and not the race. bud.
Regardless of where it’s made hopefully it brings down the price of drives for the rest of us.
drives down the price
“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”
This is less useful than libraries of congress.
I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.
Make sure you make backups - it’s better to have multiple small drives in case of failure than one big, but in any case 3-2-1 backups!
I only 3-2-1 my photos and configs. No need to back up my Linux isos
I meant the measure quoted
Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.
It doesn’t say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless
Honestly, that size of drive doesn’t need a comparison. This isn’t for your average user, so you don’t need to dumb it down for them.
Sounds like a typical scam
Sure, six vendors all decided to release scam SSDs of similar sizes.
They also decided to only scam chinese people, as it’s only available there.
Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?
Well yeah, or one managed it, and the others are just copying the size. It’s happened time and time again, how is this any different)
Yes, all these companies are using the same breakthrough in memory manufacturing to build similar products out of the same base memory modules. And none of the memory modules they’re using were made in the US (ooh scaaary).
I mean… It wouldn’t even be the first time, so 🤷♂️
