My comment explicitly notes this, and that I am not debating that transistor counts have continued to follow Moore's Law. They have. That's not the point.
> Core frequencies aren't going up, but amount of work per clock cycle is
[Citation needed]; this absolutely doesn't match my experience at all.
> You can get a 12TB HDD from NewEgg for $99.99
I looked at NewEgg specifically before I made that comment. (But for the pricing for 1 TiB, as that was comparable.) 12 TiB runs $250–400, with the absolute lowest priced¹ 12 TiB (internal desktop form factor) HDD being $201. So no, you cannot.
¹and the "features" of this "12 TB" HDD include "14TB per drive for 40% more petabytes per rack" (wat) "Highest 14TB hard drive performance" (wat)
My comment explicitly notes this, and that I am not debating that transistor counts have continued to follow Moore's Law. They have. That's not the point.
> Core frequencies aren't going up, but amount of work per clock cycle is
[Citation needed]; this absolutely doesn't match my experience at all.
> You can get a 12TB HDD from NewEgg for $99.99
I looked at NewEgg specifically before I made that comment. (But for the pricing for 1 TiB, as that was comparable.) 12 TiB runs $250–400, with the absolute lowest priced¹ 12 TiB (internal desktop form factor) HDD being $201. So no, you cannot.
¹and the "features" of this "12 TB" HDD include "14TB per drive for 40% more petabytes per rack" (wat) "Highest 14TB hard drive performance" (wat)