15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620
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#2It's an SMR drive. So better for archiving than regular IO
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#3I am going for the 15tb instead of that 14 so I have extra space for backups. Says no body. We are clearly close to the end of spinning rust, absent some new breakthrough.
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#4Will we hit a point where the size of the drive is simply too big to get the data off in any decent amount of time?
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#5Will we hit a point where the size of the drive is simply too big to get the data off in any decent amount of time?
Tape is already like that.
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#6It's an SMR drive. So better for archiving than regular IO
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#7I am going for the 15tb instead of that 14 so I have extra space for backups. Says no body. We are clearly close to the end of spinning rust, absent some new breakthrough.
If I can choose between stuffing 6x15TB or 6x14TB at comparable cost into my NAS, I'd buy the 6x15TB ones.
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#9Will we hit a point where the size of the drive is simply too big to get the data off in any decent amount of time?
If I did my calculation right it takes more than 16 hours to retrieve all 15T from the driver. Wow!