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Seagate's mass-produced HAMR hard drives to debut at 32TB, followed by 40TB (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 year ago by setInner234@feddit.de to c/hardware@lemmy.ml
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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

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

SSDs: “Look how many terabytes we can store now!”

HDDs: “Hold my SATA cable.”

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Woah 40 terabytes on a single drive Data hoarders will love that drive

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Earlier roadmaps set a goal of reaching 100TB by the end of the decade.

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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have an SMR drive ZFS resilvers can take upwards of three weeks haha

[–] setInner234@feddit.de 1 points 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!