Comment on 🖥 Best Used SAS Drives? (4TB) 🖥

Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly, are there any HDDs that can really reach 6gb/s speeds? I haven’t seen any that could reach 3gb/s. My current array is all running on SATA-2 backplanes, but with 8 drives in the raid it clocks out at 460MB/s sustained (bytes, not bits). Considering my previous NAS could barely reach 70MB/s on a 6-disk array, I was quite pleased with the new setup.

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  • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    12gbps could be useful if you use port expanders to put dozens of drives on the same port, but without a port expander you’re right you wouldn’t saturate the 6gbps channel.

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine a disk shelf of 24 drives being commented by a pair of sas loops. You’d want the faster speeds then. It’s not about individual drives.

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