Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) : technology

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

That's good, really good news, to see that HDDs are still being manufactured and being thought of. Because I'm having a serious problem trying to find a new 2.5" HDD for my old laptop here in Brazil. I can quickly find SSDs across the Brazilian online marketplaces, and they're not much expensive, but I'm intending on purchasing a mechanical one because SSDs won't hold data for much longer compared to HDDs, but there are so few HDD for sale, and those I could find aren't brand-new.

[–] prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dude i had a 240 gb ssd 14 years old. And the SMART is telling me that has 84% life yet. This was a main OS drive and was formatted multiple times. Literally data is going to be discontinued before this disk is going to die. Stop spreading fake news. Realistically how many times you fill a SSD in a typical scenario?

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

As per my previous comment, I had /var, /var/log, /home/me/.cache, among many other frequently written directories on the SSD since 2019. SSDs have fewer write cycles than HDDs, it's not "fake news".

"However, SSDs are generally more expensive on a per-gigabyte basis and have a finite number of write cycles, which can lead to data loss over time."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive)

I'm not really sure why exactly mine it's coil whining, it happens occasionally and nothing else happens aside from the high-pitched sound, but it's coil whining.

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[–] stebator@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Good. However, 2 x 16TB Seagate HDDs still cheaper, isn't it?

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[+] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -14 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Just a reminder: These massive drives are really more a "budget" version of a proper tape backup system. The fundamental physics of a spinning disc mean that these aren't a good solution for rapid seeking of specific sectors to read and write and so forth.

So a decent choice for the big machine you backup all your VMs to in a corporate environment. Not a great solution for all the anime you totally legally obtained on Yahoo.

Not sure if the general advice has changed, but you are still looking for a sweet spot in the 8-12 TB range for a home NAS where you expect to regularly access and update a large number of small files rather than a few massive ones.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

So I'm guessing you don't really know what you're talking about.

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