I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we've hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don't turn out to be outrageously expensive, I'll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable
Seagate's mass-produced HAMR hard drives to debut at 32TB, followed by 40TB
https://www.techspot.com/news/99003-seagate-mass-produced-hamr-hard-drives-debut-32tb.html
7 Comments
argv_minus_one@beehaw.org · 9 pts · 3y
SSDs: “Look how many terabytes we can store now!”
HDDs: “Hold my SATA cable.”
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 3y
Linux ISOs here I come!
It'll be interesting to see how reliable these things are. That's a lot of data to store in one place and RAID rebuild times will be long.
setInner234@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
Aren't RAID rebuilds on 16TB drives already like a week? Maybe those HAMR drives will have two actuators, but I still don't think that'll speed things up much.
Flukemaster@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
If you have an SMR drive ZFS resilvers can take upwards of three weeks haha
setInner234@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
Omg don't remind me of the SMR fiasco. I once bought an SMR drive by accident and didn't understand why overwriting lots of small files happened at like 5kbps...I couldn't believe it when I found out!
Chup@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
I recently migrated my QNAP NAS from 20TB single with a 2nd drive to RAID1. It did a rebuild that took just over 48h. Then I added another drive and migrated to RAID5. It did again just over 48h rebuild. So it's not too bad.
DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Woah 40 terabytes on a single drive Data hoarders will love that drive