Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not necessarily.

  The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.

  I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would assume with arrays they will use a different way to calculate parity or have higher redundancy to compensate the risk.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If there’s higher redundancy, then they are already giving up on density.

      We’ve pretty much covered the likely ways to calculate parity.

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