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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.

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[–] gsv 8 points 5 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.

[–] vrkr 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Says company that sells hard drives, but not ssds

[–] andioop 7 points 4 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?