It's incredible to think what capacity they could get if it was SMR. For archiving it's a non-issue, however, I could imagine without some NAND buffer or even an extremely large cache, the drive would write at 80-100MB/sec after a few gigebytes and filling 22TB at that speed, or anything large like a data backup set...ooof.
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Threska - Thursday, April 13, 2023 - link
Good, CMR for what's going to be an expensive drive.Samus - Thursday, April 13, 2023 - link
It's incredible to think what capacity they could get if it was SMR. For archiving it's a non-issue, however, I could imagine without some NAND buffer or even an extremely large cache, the drive would write at 80-100MB/sec after a few gigebytes and filling 22TB at that speed, or anything large like a data backup set...ooof.pugster - Friday, April 14, 2023 - link
More like price of nand storage is going down and hard drive makers are lowering their profits by selling their storage for cheap.flensr - Saturday, April 15, 2023 - link
How many decades does a RAID rebuild take? That's the real question.bsd228 - Monday, April 17, 2023 - link
at this size, raid 10 all night. It will take all night to sync, but one pass and done.flyingpants265 - Monday, April 17, 2023 - link
Hey, it can fit almost the whole z-library on one hard drive.