I expect many are not upgrading every small incremental improvement too. It’s the 20TB HDDs that are ready to replace.
Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!
nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
If you aren’t running a home server with tons of storage, this product is not for you. If the price is right, 40TB to 50TB is a great upgrade path for massive storage capacity without having to either buy a whole new backplane to support more drives or build an entirely new server. I see a lot of comments comparing 4TB SSDS to 40TB HDD’s so had to chime in. Yes, they make massive SSD storage arrays too, but a lot of us don’t have those really deep pockets.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I’d buy two and only turn the other on for a once a month backup. For one lone pirate just running two drives, it would be endgame basically. You’re good.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wish. I’ve got 6000 movies, 200 series, 300k songs, games, etc. pushing 30tb usage. I need to redo my setup, right now it’s raid 10. I know it’s not the most efficient with space, but I feel much better about redundancy.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
We all prioritize the data we want. I don’t carry ps3 games because I have zero interest in them, and several shows I’d never have interest in so I doubt I’ll break 25TB any time in the next five years.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
I’m still waiting for prices to fall below 10 € per TB. Lost a 4 TB drive prematurely in the 2010s. I thought I could just wait a bit until 8 TB drives cost the same. You know, the same kind of price drops HDDs have always had about every 2 years or so. Then a flood or an earthquake or both happened and destroyed some factories and prices shot up and never recovered.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thank you! I lol’d at the guy with one in his main PC lol. Like why?