Where Your Data Actually Lives — and Why RAID 5 Won't Save You
Hard drives store with magnetism, SSDs trap electrons in an insulator, RAID trades extra disks for reliability — plus the truth behind that scary "RAID 5 rebuild fails 99% of the time."
Hard drives store with magnetism, SSDs trap electrons in an insulator, RAID trades extra disks for reliability — plus the truth behind that scary "RAID 5 rebuild fails 99% of the time."
The same chip lives in your USB stick, your phone, and the petabyte SSDs feeding AI clusters. It got cheap by trading endurance for density — and that exact tradeoff is why AI is now dragging it out of cold storage and onto the hot path.
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