8tb is the pinacle of hard drives. More than this and you need shit like HAMRs and helium sealing, which adds complexity and risk failure.Also take into account that since hdds are faded to became obsolete when SSD prices fall enough, this is probably the best we will ever see. Things wont get any better than this, so i would probably just focus on buying 8tb hdds if i was you.
>>107068436I just use a 8TB NVMe SSD.
>>107068436so which ones are good? and how long do they last?
>>107068436I have some old 2010 7200 2tb drives and they are fucking slow. How good are the ironwolf pros?
>>107068436why do higher-than-8tb HDD drives need "HAMRs and helium sealing"?
>>107068436>/>ssd>/home/>ssd>Project Files>8tb HDD>media>8tb HDD
>>107068858they dont if its SMRdo you want SMR?
>>107068436>fadedno anon.
>>107068436>since hdds are faded to became obsolete when SSD prices fall enoughtwo more weeks
>>107068436Anons, I got 3x 16TB seagate exos... I wanted to go for 5 and have one as replacement. Sadly the prices went up since I bought them. And I'm so fucking dumb, I'm mirroring... so atm I have 2 mirrored and 1 as spare... for fucking Jellyfin and Games + Emulation + Personal backups.
>>107068436>shitgateeven if theyre non smr they have shit quality. just get an ssd
>has to WAIT for his files to transferno thanks, ssd's all the way. waitfagging for 4tb ssd's to be reasonably priced.
>>107070670>*checks price of 8tb SSD>$600yeah right retard
>>107070758I just got one for like $250, seems like a better deal than the lower capacity models even.
>>107068436>Brown poorfag cope thread>Seagate
>>107070888( you ) have bigger problems if you cant afford a better medium for storage
What the hell do I need 8TBs for?What do I need 8TB of slow boomer storage for?
>>107070938Put 4+ HDDs in a ZFS parity array and you can get 5-900 MB/s speeds with HDDs only depending on the drive. Slow 5400rpm would only get you 4-500 MB/s, with 20TB 7200rpm drives you can get as much as 1000 MB/s.>>107068436Current 8TB HDDs on the market either use SMR or they are helium drives but packaged in air resulting in 70C operational temperature and 38dB operational noise. 8/10TB is in fact the worst HDD size you can get today. Helium + HAMR is actually what you need for a good quality HDD, unless you regularly restore your drives by exchanging read heads in which case helium is a disadvantage.>>107068858Conventional HDDs hit a cap in platter density. You either need Helium so you can stack more platters in a drive (helium is thinner and reduces friction), or HAMR which allows for higher platter density (it uses platter materials more resistant to bit flipping, so less magnetic grains are required to store data; but this also means you have to preheat the sector to write which is what the HAMR write head does - heat assisted magnetic recording).
>>107068436>look up the cheapest $/tb>jam it in a raidYou don't need anything else.
