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[–] ANIMATEK 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] avieshek 24 points 23 hours ago

sonarr goes brrrrrr…

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Seagate in general are unreliable in my own anecdotal experience. Every Seagate I've owned has died in less than five years. I couldn't give you an estimate on the average failure age of my WD drives because it never happened before they were retired due to obsolescence. It was over a decade regularly though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

well until you need capacity why not use an SSD. It's basically mandatory for the operating system drive too

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My first HDD had a capacity of 42MB. Still a short way to go until factor 10⁶.

[–] 4grams 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My first HD was a 20mb mfm drive :). Be right back, need some “just for men” for my beard (kidding, I’m proud of it).

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So was mine, but the controller thought it was 10mb so had to load a device driver to access the full size.

Was fine until a friend defragged it and the driver moved out of the first 10mb. Thereafter had to keep a 360kb 5¼" drive to boot from.

That was in an XT.

[–] 4grams 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

it honestly could have been a 10mb, I don't even remember. only thing I really do remember is thinking it was interesting how it used the floppy and second cable, and how the sound it made was used in every 90's and early 2000's tv and movie show as generic computer noise :)

You have me beat on the XT, mine was a 286, although it did replace an Apple 2e (granted both were aquired several years after they were already considered junk in the 386 era).

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[–] Feathercrown 9 points 22 hours ago

Was fine until a friend defragged it and the driver moved out of the first 10mb

Oh noooo 😭

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

This is for cold and archival storage right?

I couldn't imagine seek times on any disk that large. Or rebuild times....yikes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Definitely not for either of those. Can get way better density from magnetic tape.

They say they got the increased capacity by increasing storage density, so the head shouldn't have to move much further to read data.

You'll get further putting a cache drive in front of your HDD regardless, so it's vaguely moot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Random access times are probably similar to smaller drives but writing the whole drive is going to be slow

[–] RedWeasel 8 points 22 hours ago

For a full 32GB at the max sustained speed(275MB/s), 32ish hours to transfer a full amount, 36 if you assume 250MB/s the whole run. Probably optimistic. CPU overhead could slow that down in a rebuild. That said in a RAID5 of 5 disks, that is a transfer speed of about 1GB/s if you assume not getting close to the max transfer rate. For a small business or home NAS that would be plenty unless you are running greater than 10GiBit ethernet.

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[–] GreenKnight23 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

cool never will buy another seagate ever though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Same but western digital, 13gb that failed and lost all my data 3 time and 3rd time was outside the warranty! I had paid 500$, the most expensive thing I had ever bought until tgat day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The two models, [...] each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk

Huh? The hell is this supposed to mean? Are they talking about the internal platters?

[–] kameecoding 6 points 18 hours ago

More than likely

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