Comment on What's the difference between a $50 HDD and a $200 HDD?

• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a common enterprise size

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  • Glowstick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not 1 tb?

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For SSDs, enterprise-tier drives typically set aside a lot more dedicated space for wear management. So in many cases, it’s actually a 1TB (or 2 -> 1.8T, etc) drive, but the disk controller/firmware only allows addressing a subset of the “true” capacity.

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      • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Likely the same deal with the platter drives too.

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