I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we’ve hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don’t turn out to be outrageously expensive, I’ll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable
SSDs: “Look how many terabytes we can store now!”
HDDs: “Hold my SATA cable.”
Woah 40 terabytes on a single drive Data hoarders will love that drive
Earlier roadmaps set a goal of reaching 100TB by the end of the decade.
Linux ISOs here I come!
It’ll be interesting to see how reliable these things are. That’s a lot of data to store in one place and RAID rebuild times will be long.
Aren’t RAID rebuilds on 16TB drives already like a week? Maybe those HAMR drives will have two actuators, but I still don’t think that’ll speed things up much.
If you have an SMR drive ZFS resilvers can take upwards of three weeks haha