It's somewhat funny to quote perf numbers for HDDs nowadays.
Come to think about it, the last HDD model I can remember as being fast is the wd6400aaks and that's a model from some 10 years ago. I suppose the Intel X25-M was announced in 2008 so that's when HDD perf started to matter less and less.
The speed is obviously not going to matter for using it as a system drive (one simply shouldn't..), but for RAID rebuilds or any other larger data movements the difference between 250 and 210 MB/s can amount to a few hours (~2h difference to r/w the full drive at peak performance).
10g is slowly shifting into affordability. It's not readily available on prebuilt NASes; but anyone building their own could add it now; or at least should consider the possibility of doing so in at sometime in the 3-6 years they'll be using the NAS.
In addition to what the others said: there's also more affordable 2.5 and 5G Ethernet from Aquantia. and HDDs seldomly transfer at their peak speed. But the percentage wise performance advantage of this drive is approximately carrying over to running several sequential streams (assuming no significant firmware difference, which is stretching it a bit).
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jjj - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
It's somewhat funny to quote perf numbers for HDDs nowadays.Come to think about it, the last HDD model I can remember as being fast is the wd6400aaks and that's a model from some 10 years ago. I suppose the Intel X25-M was announced in 2008 so that's when HDD perf started to matter less and less.
MrSpadge - Friday, December 15, 2017 - link
The speed is obviously not going to matter for using it as a system drive (one simply shouldn't..), but for RAID rebuilds or any other larger data movements the difference between 250 and 210 MB/s can amount to a few hours (~2h difference to r/w the full drive at peak performance).jjj - Friday, December 15, 2017 - link
Ofc it matters for some, I was just amused by my own reaction to the headline that mentions perf and decided to share that.CaedenV - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
Who cares what speed it is? It is going to go in a NAS with a 1gbps pipe and be limited to 100MB/s anyways.We need more 10gig options
DanNeely - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
10g is slowly shifting into affordability. It's not readily available on prebuilt NASes; but anyone building their own could add it now; or at least should consider the possibility of doing so in at sometime in the 3-6 years they'll be using the NAS.Qasar - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
still could work in may NAS.. i have the gigabit ports linked together via Link Aggregation, so speed does matter even if its not a 10 G port.....MrSpadge - Friday, December 15, 2017 - link
In addition to what the others said: there's also more affordable 2.5 and 5G Ethernet from Aquantia. and HDDs seldomly transfer at their peak speed. But the percentage wise performance advantage of this drive is approximately carrying over to running several sequential streams (assuming no significant firmware difference, which is stretching it a bit).phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
From the article:To a large degree, the MG06ACA resembles Toshiba’s recently announced MG06ACA HDDs for
One of those should be an MN*, no?