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What exactly are these "white label drives"? Aren't these just normal seagate exos drives with SMART information wiped and labels removed? i.e. just a worse used drive.
Weren't shucked drives (removed from enclosures) referred to as White label drives at one point?
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Where are you seeing 8TB (assuming you meant TB and Tb) for $300?
At Amazon. Guess I needed to check it better. Also I shouldn't did it in a bar. sigh Anyway, I have a spreadsheet with both the prices and $/Gb/Tb so I just copy the relevant part here and hope formatting would persist: $/Tb Item Interface Capacity Price, $ $90 SSD 4Tb Samsung 870 QVO (MZ-77Q4T0BW) SATA3 4000 $359 $96 SSD 2Tb Samsung 870 QVO (MZ-77Q2T0BW) SATA3 2000 $192 $102 USB 1Tb SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Go (SDDD…
The endurance ratings are definitely worth knowing about if you write heavily to things.
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No. RAID 5/6 is still fundamentally broken and probably won't get fixed
This is incorrect, quoting Linux 6.7 release (Jan 2024): "This release introduces the [Btrfs] RAID stripe tree, a new tree for logical file extent mapping where the physical mapping may not match on multiple devices. This is now used in zoned mode to implement RAID0/RAID1* profiles, but can be used in non-zoned mode as well. The support for RAID56 is in development and will eventually fix the problems with the curren…