Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?

anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m more shocked how little I need extra space!
  I’m rocking an ancient 1TB for backups. And my main is a measly 512GB SSD.
  But I don’t store movies anymore, because we always find what we want to see online, and I don’t store games I don’t actively use, because they are in my GOG or Steam libraries.
  With 1 gigabit per second internet, it only takes a few minutes to download anyways.

  Come to think of it, my phone has almost as much space for use, with the 512GB internal storage. 😋
  Maybe I’m a fringe case IDK. But it’s a long time since storage ceased to be a problem.

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  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I download both windows and linux offline installers when I buy games at gog.com, it’s one of the reasons I buy there.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s honestly intense. I would be terrified of having that much data in one place

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess you’re expected to set those up in a RAID 5 or 6 (or similar) setup to have redundancy in case of failure.

    Rebuilding after a failure would be a few days of squeaky bum time though.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At raid6, rebuilds are 4.2 roentgens, not great but they’re not horrible. Keep old backups.but the data isn’t irreplaceable.

      Raid5 is suicide if you care about your data.

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    • Skydancer@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely not. At those densities, the write speed isn’t high enough to trust to RAID 5 or 6, particularly on a new system with drives from the same manufacturing batch (which may fail around the same time). You’d be looking at a RAID 10 or even a variant with more than two drives per mirror. Regardless of RAID level, at least a couple should be reserved as hot spares as well.

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      • femtech@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah I have 6 14tb drives in raid 10, I’ll get 2 more if i need it.

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  • adavis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While not hard drives, at $dayjob we bought a new server out with 16 x 64TB nvme drives. We don’t even need the speed of nvme for this machines roll. It was the density that was most appealing.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is exactly what it was like, except you didn’t need it as much.

      Storage used to cover how much a person needed and maybe 2-8x more, then datasets shot upwards with audio/mp3, then video, then again with Ai.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well hell, it’s not like it’s your money.

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