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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, I remember when someone on reddit got mad upvotes for saying "5tb hard drives don't exist" in response to me, as the external 5tb hdd I was using sat 2ft away from me.

And here we are looking at the [BRAND] advertisement for 120TB drives.

[–] dumbass@lemy.lol 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come on man, 120gb HDDs don't exist!

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, they don’t exist. (yet)

[–] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Do you mean "anymore"?

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when I got my forst 120gb drive. I happily installed it on my win 2k and... bios didn't like it, OS didn't like it and read its capacity wrong. I forget if I used windows or linux but after I cut the drive into 2x60gb it worked great

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was already sick of this shit the first time I saw a 1GB harddisk, a Quantum Bigfoot using a 5.25" form factor. Massive thing. Could fit a whole day of a comprehensive USENET feed.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure they were referring to how the more common sizes are 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 TB and so on. 6 is semi-common. 5 is relatively rare, so they probably didn't realize they exist.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And any 8TB disk with bad blocks makes a fine 5TB disk.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I own a couple of 5TB drives. At the time when 8TB and above were rare and expensive, it wasn't that strange.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Still rocking an Xbox one with a 4tb external drive. It's got to be going on 10 years old at this point

[–] guycls@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Finally, all of my homework on one drive.

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember reading an interesting take on the 20TB drives when they came out - the impact of drive failure skyrockets with large density drives.

Back with 2TB drives, you could fit 60-70 Blu-ray rips. If that drive dies (without backups/RAID), you'll be hurting but not as bad as if you have a filled 20TB with 600-700 rips. Plus, even with RAID, the rebuild time increases with density, and for 20TB drives you could be waiting a week for rebuild.

I like the idea of higher density drives, but in my opinion they only really make sense in large drive arrays where you can spread the data over dozens and dozens of replicated drives.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I do miss being able to back up my 8 GB drive onto five bucks' worth of CD-Rs.

I do not miss having only 8 GB to work with.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Resilvering a drive failure gonna take ages

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Backups will be fun too.

[–] charleroi2@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Cort@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

If you have to ask . . .

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

~~Uhhhhhhhhhhh 3k minimum probably~~

Edit: this is HARD DRIVE not SSD, so im estimating $500 instead

Edit 2: im bad at this

[–] astrsk@piefed.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

$500 for 120TB!?

I spent about $1200 for 100tb of spinning rust for one of my NAS boxes. Please tell me where I can get 20% more for 40% less!

For clarity, at the $240 per 20tb CMR drive, assuming no inflated cost due to novel production processes, it would be around $1440 for one drive. I’m going to assume ~$1600 minimum. Also, I’m not going to buy one until they can prove it doesn’t have the same issues as shingled drives.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol i remember spending $300 on 200gb hdds. And i got a discount since some buddies and i pooled to get a batch together

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was an exciting time when we finally passed the $1/GB mark.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those were the days my friend.....

I'll tell you what though, i still have that 200gb WD. It still works. Chucked it under disk tools and ran some deep diags for shits and giggles, no errors found. 24 years old (ditto with an ancient 20gb toshiba that runs the head for a nas). Ya just can't kill them. I have quantum fireballs in a DOS box that are still trucking

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

$500 would be an insane price. 16TB drives alone are like $300-500 CAD

I think the existing 100TB SSDs are over $10k. Halo products charge a premium.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I just want giant SSD's for not an insane price. But don't see it happening anytime soon.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They're not even making them yet.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... from a homelab pov I should start comparing dB/TB ...

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

That brings lemmy hosting its own videos much closer!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Oh oh... I feel the sudden urge to start hoarding stuff and hosting an IPFS node 😅

Anti Commercial AI thingyCC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Multilayer recording sounds like it would require read-rewrite similar to how SMR works. Still perhaps we'd be okay with that for the dramatic capacity increase.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

New technology to increase hard drive storage? "Get perpendicular!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago