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A new Seagate report reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental sustainability metrics, particularly when accounting for manufacturing processes. According to the storage-maker's ""Decarbonizing Data">Decarbonizing Data" [PDF] study, the embodied carbon ...

A new report from Seagate reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental impact metrics, challenging common industry assumptions about storage sustainability. According to Seagate’s “Decarbonizing Data” report released this month [PDF], standard hard drives produce just 29.7 kg of embodied carbon dioxide compared to a staggering 4,915 kg for equivalently sized data center SSDs.

  • gsv@programming.devEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The article is unfortunately a stub. The original insight stems from the peer reviewed report of Tannu and Nair (2022) and is based on a meta analysis of several life cycle analyses. It’s actually cited and linked in the Seagate brochure:

    https://hotcarbon.org/assets/2022/pdf/hotcarbon22-tannu.pdf

    Long story short: The reason a combination of the higher production related CO2e emissions and the higher power consumption given the current power mix.