But TTN's LoRaWAN was always plagued with limited adoption in the US especially.

Enters the crypto bros....

A crypto startup used the basic business plan from TTN, multiplied the cost to deploy a device by like 5-10x and put an allbeit secure, but confusing AF layer of cryptocurrency around the whole thing and promised to share profits with routers err I mean "miners"

Naturally they hit the adoption jackpot but cost structure is f'd so its a non-starter

https://explorer.helium.com/

@alterelefant @Heidi As of now, we can see stuff like the #ExaDrive, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for #online - #archival storage.

• As #Helium-filled #SMR-#HDD|s struggle to meet the demand for storage at an acceptable thermal & power envelope and price, #SSD|s will inevitable take over as not only the more robust media but also cheaper, more dense and easier to use.

As for the #NeoFloppy that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for #PCIe signalling...

• Needless to say if constant write speed and lifetime in writes is secondary, then a stack of cheap #SATA-SSDs already beats #LTO-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal #Petabytes and need the fancy features like #WORM media.

That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.

• In fact #ZFS can already offer many features of #LTFS, including read-only snapshots and thus append-only #archives.

Until there are #COTS solutions tho, LTO #Tape and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.

• Still I'd happily see storage vendors take up the NeoFloppy and build something off it.

@RadioAzureus my core problem with these is that they use a very scarce resource (#Helium) that should've been used for more critical applications...

• This affirms my stance that #HDDs are on their way out and have reached their technical limitations...

@perry_mitchell I'd avoid not just #SMR but all #Helium-filled drives as a matter of principle.

• Also isn't #UnRaid that weird #KVM-Distro?

I mean, I know #trueNAS SCALE & #ProxMox doing #ZFS + #Ceph for #clustering and #redundancy...

@ColetteDiskette add:

• Never buy #Helium-filled drives again.

&

• Never buy #SMR drives again ...

At least from my experience...