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[–] paulbg@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

finally i'll be able to self-host one piece streaming

my qbittorrent is gonna love that

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Finally, a hard drive which can store more than a dozen modern AAA games

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't wait to see this bad boy on serverpartdeals in a couple years if I'm still alive

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if I'm still alive

That goes without saying, unless you anticipate something. Do you?

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

Great, can't wait to afford it in 60 years.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm amazed it's only $800. I figured that shit was gonna be like 8-10 thousand.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, it's a Seagate, so it still comes out to about a hundred bucks a month.

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[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate:

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[–] zapzap@lemmings.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This hard drive is so big when it moves, the Richter scale picks it up.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This hard drive is so big when it backs up it makes a beeping sound.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 149 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] needanke@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (17 children)

What is the usecase for drives that large?

I 'only' have 12Tb drives and yet my zfs-pool already needs ~two weeks to scrub it all. With something like this it would literally not be done before the next scheduled scrub.

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sounds like something is wrong with your setup. I have 20TB drives (x8, raid 6, 70+TB in use) .... scrubbing takes less than 3 days.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Jesus, my pool takes a little over a day, but I’ve only got around 100 tb how big is your pool?

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

It's like the petronas towers, everytime they're finished cleaning the windows they have to start again

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

there was a time i asked this question about 500 megabytes

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

High capacity storage pools for enterprises.
Space is at a premium. Saving space should/could equal to better pricing/availability.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not necessarily.

The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.

I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Data centers???

[–] SuperUserDO@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is an enterprise storage shelf (aka a bunch of drives that hooks up to a server) made by Dell which is 1.2 PB (yes petabytes). So there is a use, but it's not for consumers.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's a use-case for a fuckton of total capacity, but not necessarily a fuckton of per-drive capacity. I think what the grandparent comment is really trying to say is that the capacity has so vastly outstripped mechanical-disk data transfer speed that it's hard to actually make use of it all.

For example, let's say you have these running in a RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fails and you have to swap it out. At 190MB/s max sustained transfer rate (figure for a 28TB Seagate Exos; I assume this new one is similar), you're talking about over two days just to copy over the parity information and get the array out of degraded mode! At some point these big drives stop being suitable for that use-case just because the vulnerability window is so large that the risk of a second drive failure causing data loss is too great.

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[–] Bael422@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

It's to play Ark: Survival Evolved.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's a lot of porn. And possibly other stuff, too.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 122 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Well, largest this week. And

Yeah, $800 isn’t a small chunk of change, but for a hard drive of this capacity, it’s monumentally cheap.

Nah, a 24TB is $300 and some 20TB's are even lower $ per TB.

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 days ago (18 children)

with this I can store at least 3 modern "AAA" games

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[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sorry but without a banana for scale it's hard to tell how big it really is

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (26 children)

no thanks Seagate. the trauma of losing my data because of a botched firmware with a ticking time bomb kinda put me off your products for life.

see you in hell.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I can certainly understand holding grudges against corporations. I didn’t buy anything from Sony for a very long time after their fuckery with George Hotz and Nintendo's latest horseshit has me staying away from them, but that was a single firmware bug that locked down hard drives (note, the data was still intact) a very long time ago. Seagate even issued a firmware update to prevent the bug from biting users it hadn’t hit yet, but firmware updates at the time weren’t really something people thought to ever do, and operating systems did not check for them automatically back then like they do now.

Seagate fucked up but they also did everything they could to make it right. That matters. Plus, look at their competition. WD famously lied about their red drives not being SMR when they actually were. And I’ve only ever had WD hard drives and sandisk flash drives die on me. And guess who owns sandisk? Western Digital!

I guess if you must go with a another company, there’s the louder and more expensive Toshiba drives but I have never used those before so I know nothing about them aside from their reputation for being loud.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every manufacturer has made a product that failed.

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