In a conference call this week, Seagate offered new details on its progress in bringing hard drives exceeding 30TB to the enterprise and consumer markets late this...

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

  • setInner234@feddit.deOP
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    1 year ago

    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.

      • setInner234@feddit.deOP
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        1 year ago

        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
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      1 year ago

      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.