Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives
fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months agoMy bet is on density. You cram so much in such a tiny space, so any tiny imperfection or fault will corrupt the data or render the drive unusable.
4grams@awful.systems 4 months ago
At the time it was fine. I had an array of 4tb drives that I was backing up with a series of 5gb drives. They were just so unreliable; all but one failed while the array they backed up is still spinning strong.