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

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

High capacity storage pools for enterprises.
Space is at a premium. Saving space should/could equal to better pricing/availability.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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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