Seagate One Touch Portable review: The fastest 2.5-inch USB hard drive I’ve tested
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Cheap, fast-enough spinning disks remain the default for bulk storage, especially as AI workloads generate massive cold data. If your infra costs are ballooning, revisiting tiered storage—with HDDs for logs, checkpoints, and archives—may buy real runway without architectural heroics.
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