Backblaze, for one (remote backup and storage service). They buy masses of spinning rust drives to provide large amounts of remote storage at low prices. (They also publish reliability statistics, and do a quarterly report on reliability of various drive types, which is useful).
Who is still using HDD these days?
Anyone who needs mass storage, that doesn’t need it at high speed, and don’t want to pay like $100/TB for it. Most HDDs are like $20/TB, give or take.
HDD is still good for backups.
How much for 100TB of drives $1500
How much for 100TB of NVME $10,000
Yes I still use hard drives in my threadripper servers and NAS.
Backblaze, for one (remote backup and storage service). They buy masses of spinning rust drives to provide large amounts of remote storage at low prices. (They also publish reliability statistics, and do a quarterly report on reliability of various drive types, which is useful).
My 20TB zfs mirrored NAS. I’m not buying 40TB of ssds in this economy.
Such a naive take
It’s not a “take”, it’s a question