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[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 89 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My Jellyfin just quivered…

[–] PHLAK@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been looking to buy a couple 24TB drives. Hopefully, this pushes their price down.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Peertube instance owners rejoice!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or just people who download porn.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Who doesn't have multiple TB of videos just laying around?

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish there were TBs of porn of what I was into.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

If porn was just created on demand instead of filling millions of hdd's, would anyone notice or care? Finally a use for generative AI.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't have porn just lying around, thank you very much

It's all seeding for the other degenerates, doing hard work

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I prefer 1980s porn jpgs around 90kB each thankyouverymuch.

It's crazy sizes though uf you think about it, I have like 2 or 4 TB drives and they are far from full.

[–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

When will it be commercially available though? Supposedly Seagate has had 30TB drives out for the better part of a year, but I can't find anything larger than 24TB actually available for purchase.

[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I've been waiting for a 32TB to become available as well, Seagate announced that drive last year and it's still not available outside data centers. I suspect the WD one will be the same.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 11 months ago

I'd guess that they're commercially available but only for hyperscalers - large companies like Google, Amazon (AWS), etc that need a huge amount of storage.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Obligatory hint that SMR isn't suited for RAID systems.

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A better way to word it is: SMR is only suited for archival usage. Large writes, little-to-no random writes.

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[–] ninth_plane@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Tape on a platter, basically.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wonder what happens if you throw them in an unraid BTRFS/jbod configuration with a CMR parity drive.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Slowdown and data corruption?

[–] addie@feddit.uk 26 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Assuming that these have fairly impressive 100 MB/s sustained write speed, then it's going to take about 93 hours to write the whole contents of the disk - basically four days. That's a long time to replace a failed drive in a RAID array; you'd need to consider multiple disks of redundancy just in case another one fails while you're resilvering the first.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 11 points 11 months ago

This is one of the reasons I use unRAID with two parity disks. If one fails, I'll still have access to my data while I rebuild the data on the replacement drive.

Although, parity checks with these would take forever, of course..

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty common failure scenario in SANs. If you buy a bunch of drives, they're almost guaranteed to come from the same batch, meaning they're likely to fail around the same time. The extra load of a rebuild can kill drives that are already close to failure.

Which is why SANs have hot spares that can be allocated instantly on failure. And you should use a RAID level with enough redundancy to meet your reliability needs. And RAID is not backup, you should have backups too.

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[–] C126@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

2 parity is standard and should still be adequate. Likelihood of two failures within four days on the same array is small.

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[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If you eyeballing these, please remind that these babies tend to be LOUD AS FUCK, so might not be suitable for home server use.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Are they any louder than any HDD from the last 30 years?

If so, im actually curious why that is

Edit: fixed to say HDD not SSD

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Well I have no experience with these particular drives, but they do seem to have 11 platters. Which is beyond insane as far as I'm concerned. More platters means more moving parts, more friction more noise (all other things being equal).

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Oops, yes. I definitely would expect these to be much louder than your 6 GB 1998 model HDD wrangling under stress of copying files at 30 MB/s.

[–] Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to my IBM 10GB 10.000 RPM U2W SCSI from back then. To this day I have never witnessed a noisier harddrive... But that PC was pretty epic, including the biggest mf of a mainboard I ever had (the SCSI controller was onboard).

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 3 points 11 months ago

Ah, the sound of turning on the SCSI storage tower.

KA-TSCHONK. WeeeeeeeeEEEEEIIIIIII... skrrrt, skrrrt, clack.

Either that or KA-TSCHONK, silence, if there were already too many boxes on that circuit at a lan party 😁

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just don't put it in your bedroom. All those dead skin cells wouldn't do good to it anyway.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Since when is dust a concern for hard drives??

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I was talking about the server in general

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[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Parity rebuild will only take a week....

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[–] Toes@ani.social 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My 6TB drive just died. So I'm in the market for a new one.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

sorry but these aren't 6TB

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mebbe the 26 one is just 3-4 smaller drives inside it?

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You joke but that's sorta how it works for some HDDs lol

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago
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