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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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Western Digital recently announced new data center HDDs that increase Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) capacity to 32TB and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity to 26TB. The company...
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    Assuming that these have fairly impressive 100 MB/s sustained write speed, then it’s going to take about 93 hours to write the whole contents of the disk - basically four days. That’s a long time to replace a failed drive in a RAID array; you’d need to consider multiple disks of redundancy just in case another one fails while you’re resilvering the first.

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    8 months ago

    32TB SSDs will be cheaper than hard drives by 2028

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      8 months ago

      Damn, how are you so confident?

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        8 months ago

        Nobody will remember or care if he’s wrong.

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    8 months ago

    Archive link: https://archive.ph/CAxE9

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    8 months ago

    My Jellyfin just quivered…

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    I’ve been looking to buy a couple 24TB drives. Hopefully, this pushes their price down.

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      8 months ago

      Peertube instance owners rejoice!

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        8 months ago

        Or just people who download porn.

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          I prefer 1980s porn jpgs around 90kB each thankyouverymuch.

          It’s crazy sizes though uf you think about it, I have like 2 or 4 TB drives and they are far from full.

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          That’s… a lot of porn.

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            Who doesn’t have multiple TB of videos just laying around?

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              *Raises hand confidently

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    When will it be commercially available though? Supposedly Seagate has had 30TB drives out for the better part of a year, but I can’t find anything larger than 24TB actually available for purchase.

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