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Despite relentless forecasts of their demise, hard disk drives (HDDs) continue to thrive, especially in the enterprise cold storage market. This article explores the surprising economic and technological factors enabling HDDs to maintain a crucial role in data centers worldwide, driven by their unbeatable cost-per-bit advantage for massive, infrequently accessed data.

Learn how to leverage Linux's Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to create high-performance, cost-effective storage arrays by caching frequently accessed HDD data on SSDs. This guide walks through RAID 1 configuration, cache partitioning, and performance optimization for use cases like data mirrors and local LLM storage.