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Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
Submitted 10 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.vice.com/en/article/worlds-largest-hard-drive-massive-36tb-seagate/
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yaroto98@lemmy.org 10 months ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think if I needed to store 36TB of data, I would rather get several smaller disks.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Multiple drives in a RAID.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s roughly what I have now, and I only have about 200gb left, so I kind of wish I could get a little more right now. This is across 7 drives. I really hope storing data becomes faster and cheaper in the future because as it keeps growing over the past few decades, it gets longer and longer to replace and move this much data…
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well, it does cost less and less every year. I bought two 8TB drives for $300 each or so, and today a 24TB drive is about that much.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
But if you need a Petabyte of data you’ll appreciate this existing
kevincox@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I don’t think the target audience of this drive is buying one. They are trying to optimize for density and are probably buying in bulk rather than paying the $800 price tag.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
But if you hate your data there’s no quicker way to lose it than a 36TB Seagate drive.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s why Seagate is the last word in the title.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Do you need it? Probably not. Do you want it? Oh, yeah.
I feel seen
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Defragmenting…
T156@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One of the worst things that the newer Windows versions did is get rid of that little view of defragmenting. It was much more interesting than watching a number slowly tick up.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 10 months ago
Man, I used to LOVE defragmenting drives. I felt like I was actually doing something productive, and I just got to sit back and watch the magic happen.
Now I know better.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s not really Ext4 doing that, it’s a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.
You’ll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So how much data would I lose when it dies?
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
about 36TB?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nooooooooo not all my pr0ns!!
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Assuming you aren’t striping, up to 36 TB. If you follow even halfway decent practices with basically any kind of RAID other than 0, hopefully 0 Bytes.
The main worry with stuff like this is that it potentially takes a while to recover from a failed drive even if you catch it in time (alert systems are your friend). And 36 TB is a LOT of data to work through and recover which means a LOT of stress on the remaining drives for a few days.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 10 months ago
It would probably take days to rebuild the array.
It’s important to also note that RAID (or alternatives such as unRAID) are not backup systems and should not be relied on as such. If you have a severe brownout that fries more than two or three drives at once, for example, you will lose data if you’re not backing up.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
aren’t striping
I think you mean “are striping”.
But even with striping you have backups right? Local redundancy is for availability, not durability.
solrize@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Well, largest this week. And
Yeah, $800 isn’t a small chunk of change, but for a hard drive of this capacity, it’s monumentally cheap.
Nah, a 24TB is $300 and some 20TB’s are even lower $ per TB.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I bought 8TB for something like $300. 36TB seems quite attractive.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Omg I really have been out of the loop. I originally filled my 8 bay NAS with 6tb drives starting back in 2018. Once they would fill, i added another. 3 years ago, I finally ran out of space and started swapping out the 6tb for 10tb. Due to how it works, I needed to do 2 before I saw any additional space. I think i have 3 or 4 now, and the last one was 2 years ago. They did cost around $250 at the time, and I think i got 1 for just over $200. The fact that I can more than double that for only $300 is crazy news to me. Guess I am going to stop buying 10tb now. The only part that sucks is having to get 2 up front…
Armand1@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were refurbished. Usually a refurbished drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Refurbished drives sound scary. Any data to point towards that not being a problem?
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I paid $600+ for a 24 TB drive, tax free. I feel robbed. Although I’m glad not to shop at Newegg.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, fuck Newegg (and amazon too). I’ve been using B&H for disks and I have no complaints about them. They have the Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB at $479 currently, but last week it was on sale for $419. (I only look at 5yr warranty disks.)
I was not in a position to take advantage as I’ve already made my disk purchase this go around, so I’ll wait for the next deep discount to hit if it is timely.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s a lot of porn.
bstix@feddit.dk 10 months ago
You wouldn’t download your mom.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, but I have downloaded yours.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’d go broke. Of course it’s all Linux, family archives and DNA test data, BTC blockchain, backed up FOSS projects, archives of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and OpenStreetMap, and of course - POVRay renders.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And linux distros
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Honestly, when I first got into forums, I thought they were literally talking about Linux distros, because at the time, that’s literally all I was seeding since that’s what I was into.
Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I have around 150 distros seeding 🤣. I need to get those numbers up!
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Just say it’s full of porn, it’s easier to explain
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Werd
shredslen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Imagine having that…then dropping it…
wioum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Summon Linus
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It will take about 36 hours to fill this drive at 270mb/s
That’s a long time to backup your giraffe porn collection.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How did you know about my giraffe porn?
ksigley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How you 'bout to call me out like that ?
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What kind of degenerate do you think I am? That’s 36 hours to back up my walrus porn collection.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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