Oddbean new post about login | logout Looks like 4TB NVMe PCIe 4 hard drives that can read and write 8 GB/s have dropped under $200. Makes me wonder how long it would take to sync a fully validating Ethereum node on one. 🙃
Approximately 17 weeks
GM
💩 in the toilet. Not your hard disk.
where did you found one for under 200?
https://www.newegg.com/nextorage-4tb-nem-pa-series-m-2-2280-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssd-built-in-heatsink/p/0D9-0106-00002?sdtid=17006242&Item=9SIBG7CJ7B1454
nice, never heard of that company tbh, but with 5 yrs of warranty guess there shouldn't be an issue, in Europe it's more expensive but cheaper then anything else comparable in specs
Sounds like a test is incoming? 🤞 Think I can still be done?
A million years - if it’s even possible.
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Blasphemy!
QLC drives are all trash. They have ok performance in bursts, but the sustained performance is terrible and the reliability is awful. QLC means it’s storing 4 bits of information per cell. And it does this by holding a charge at 1 of 16 levels. It’s basically analog. The only way QLC achieves decent burst performance is that they all have an SLC cache. SLC is a single bit per cell. With the current tech, I wouldn’t go beyond TLC, which is 3 bits per cell.
What about MLC or 3D NAND?