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You may want to avoid the 20TB as that uses SMR:
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expiredEragorn | Staff posted Nov 17, 2022 06:13 PM
14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Seagate and WD sales of HDs keeps dropping (because of SSDs, etc.). Manufacturing lower capacity HD drives won't be worth it.
Yes, there's inflation, but I don't see inflation as an issue for computer electronics. I think it's going the other way as consumers will want to spend less and get more. The big push for WFH electronics has gone through. Now plants are at full capacity and eager to bring in revenues fast. Small stick streaming devices are plentiful and given away for almost free. There will be less demand for consumer high storage needs for most, though some will go the other way.
Attached chart of anticipated capacity shipments going forward.
They are 5400rpm but I still see upwards of 200MB/s read/write.
I believe that they added the easystore line to the exclusions earlier this year.
Correct for today - this should be for everyone starting tomorrow. I'm hoping I'm not wrong but apologies if I am. Worst case scenario everyone just starts downvoting it
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Does anyone know if the drives are 5400RPM or 7200RPM.
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On Windows 10, must we safely remove drive each time, or can we just disconnect the drive, or do we lose the data? In the case of power outages with it still connected, will we lose all data?
If you can wait, there is speculation that high capacity drives may come down… with the current economy and potential slow down in data center build outs, I don't see them going up unless there is a plant that goes offline for an extended period. But be prepared to wait until spring, summer or as long as next BF for the next "sale".
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Seagate and WD sales of HDs keeps dropping (because of SSDs, etc.). Manufacturing lower capacity HD drives won't be worth it.
Yes, there's inflation, but I don't see inflation as an issue for computer electronics. I think it's going the other way as consumers will want to spend less and get more. The big push for WFH electronics has gone through. Now plants are at full capacity and eager to bring in revenues fast. Small stick streaming devices are plentiful and given away for almost free. There will be less demand for consumer high storage needs for most, though some will go the other way.
Attached chart of anticipated capacity shipments going forward.
On Windows 10, must we safely remove drive each time, or can we just disconnect the drive, or do we lose the data? In the case of power outages with it still connected, will we lose all data?
I've elected to eject as it only takes 5 seconds...
Do both of these....
I don't have a drive hooked up right now so I can't see the actual options, but when the external is connected, R click on it through explorer and go to properties. You'll see some options there.
Next, while the drive is still connected, go into device manager, select the drive, and I think there's a "advanced" or "hardware" tab or something. Click on that and you can make adjustments too if you don't want your drive going to sleep every 20 seconds. When the drive isn't asleep forcing a 20-30 second wake up, it's very easy to eject drives.
$599 for 16TB Red Pro? LMAO
Imho, the primary advantage to having 10gbe between your NAS and the rest of the network is that a single user on 1gbe can't bottle neck the whole system.
You also have to factor in what type of raid array your using and what kind of transfer rates your HBA/Backplane on the NAS is capable of. All my wired devices are on a 10gbe switch with my 16 bay server having a 40gbe uplink running 16 drives in raid 61. At this point the limiting factor is the spinning rust in all those devices but I have no need for anything faster as the server is more for data hoarding and media streaming and not doing any "real" work besides the VMs running on it.
What equipment do you guys use for your 10Gbe network setups?
What OS and file system?
I am byuing parts for a home server build (probably ZFS-based), and you can achieve 600 MBs read speed with platter drives when striped across multiple units, which is like 4800 Mbs and definitely needs 10 Gbe LAN to benefit fully, but prices for 10 Gbe equipment are still yikes! Any recommendations for a sensible balance of price?
What are your servers' specs? Thanks
A lot of people buy Brocade 10Gbe enterprise grade switches off of EBay and swap the fans out with Nocturnas to quiet them down.
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nvm - got logged out of my account... price as stated - thanks op!
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