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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.

    • andioop@programming.devEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I am all for pointing out conflicts of interest, but I bought an SSD external hard drive from Seagate, and just looking up “Seagate SSD” will take you to a bunch of Seagate SSD products. Is there something I’m missing here?