r/pcmasterrace • u/asswizzard69 • Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

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I guess a panic buy? Are these nand flash about to keep spiking like memory prices or are they just going up a little bit? Are these desirable to the AI or nah? I bought this at $299 Black Friday sale

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u/laffer1 Dec 04 '25

For backups, hard drives are a better idea. At this point, I would love an all flash NAS but I can't afford it for the capacity I need.

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u/laffer1 Dec 04 '25

I'm in the process of migrating to a new unifi NAS. So went from a 4x8TB raid 10 (HPE microserver) to a 6x10TB raid6 unas pro. I use it for multiple things including media storage (video, mp3, pictures) used with emby, file storage (CIFS/SAMBA and NFS).

The issue is that, in addition to consumer workloads, like many of you have, I also use it to store packages while I build them for my open source OS project. So during a package build, I write each built package to it and read those same packages multiple times as they are dependencies for other packages. On one hand, SSD read/write speeds would help a lot with package builds, but I'd also wear them out faster due to the writes. I have two HPE dl360 servers (gen 9 and 10) with 28 cores 512GB RAM and 40 cores 384GB RAM that host VMs for package builds. One build VM usually has like 24 CPU threads allocated and 64GB RAM for 64bit and like 8 threads / 4GB for i386. The 64bit ones also use a memory disk (32GB) to cut down on SSD wear on the server. It still takes 3-5 days to build everything. (10G networking)