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by tw04 3439 days ago
I take it you don't deal with enterprise storage then. 15mm is the size of basically every enterprise 2.5" drive sled. That's the form factor of all 10k RPM 2.5" drives. The only thing the drive you described DOESN'T work with are laptops. Pretty much anything else it's a perfect fit.

The laptop drive thickness is the abnormality for the rest of the storage world.
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codebook 3439 days ago
If you go to enterprise storage, then you can get 16TB SSD though. It is not comparable.
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tw04 3439 days ago
What exactly isn't comparable? A 5TB 15mm 2.5" NL-SAS drive is about $250. The "16"TB (it's 15.3TB) SSD you reference is about $10k. The cost per TB of NL-SAS is SIGNIFICANTLY lower, and still absolutely has a place for bulk data storage that doesn't have performance requirements.

Ohhh, I get it, you're now modifying your original post to look like you were aware of enterprise storage. Got it.

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