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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!

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  • F [email protected]

    Black ops 6 just demanded another 45 GB for an update on my PS5, when the game is already 200 GB. AAA devs are making me look more into small indie games that don’t eat the whole hard drive to spend my money on, great job folks.

    E) meant to say instead of buying a bigger hard drive I’ll support a small dev instead.

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    Ok, I’m sorry, but… HOW???? How is it possibly two hundred fucking gigabytes?!?!? What the fuck is taking up so much space???

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      Ok, I’m sorry, but… HOW???? How is it possibly two hundred fucking gigabytes?!?!? What the fuck is taking up so much space???

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      More than triple the next largest game. All I want is the zombies mode and space to install other games, I could probably cull 80% of the COD suite and be just fine, but I have to carry the whole bag to reach in 🤷‍♂️

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      • H [email protected]

        Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

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        My manager ordered four "4TB" external SSDs from AliExpress a few weeks back. He paid £60 total for them, delivered.

        My Sus alarm started clanging, so I grabbed one off him and ran some tests on it.

        After a couple of days of the tests chuntering along, I ended up reasonably convinced that they're - at most - 40GB. And even at that capacity they're useless, transferring at around 10MB/s

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          Imagine losing a 50tb drive because you choose to use Seagate.

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            Imagine losing a 50tb drive because you choose to use Seagate.

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            #103

            Seagate Exos is usually ok. Their generic stuff, is sometimes crap, but that's true of all manufacturers, really.

            That being said, I'd be nervous with a single huge drive, no matter where it's from. And even as part of a redundant structure, the rebuild times would be through the roof.

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            • K [email protected]

              I expect many are not upgrading every small incremental improvement too. It's the 20TB HDDs that are ready to replace.

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              I'd buy two and only turn the other on for a once a month backup. For one lone pirate just running two drives, it would be endgame basically. You're good.

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                Ah yes. Seagate. The trash storage device company. If you want to burn your money, just throw it into a fire before buying this e-waste.

                Can not recommend.

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                  I have a 20TB seagate exos drive in my main pc and I hate it. Partly due to my case, but it’s noisy and does an obnoxious head reset (or whatever) every 7 minutes or so. It’s so loud.

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                    I have a 20TB seagate exos drive in my main pc and I hate it. Partly due to my case, but it’s noisy and does an obnoxious head reset (or whatever) every 7 minutes or so. It’s so loud.

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                    Is it a mechanical drive?

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                      Is it a mechanical drive?

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                      #108

                      Show me a 40tb ssd lol

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                        I have a 20TB seagate exos drive in my main pc and I hate it. Partly due to my case, but it’s noisy and does an obnoxious head reset (or whatever) every 7 minutes or so. It’s so loud.

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                        #109

                        These drives aren't for home desktops, they're more for server setups with large datasets and redundancy. Lol why do you need a 20tb drive in your main PC?

                        I have 4 x 20tb drives in a truenas where I have backups, movies, and music, network accessible for the whole house.

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                          Show me a 40tb ssd lol

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                          How about a 122.88tb SSD? Large SSDs are pretty common in the enterprise market and arguably much easier to manufacture since you only need to put a bunch of nand chips on a pcb.

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                            Oh thank God, 40,000 gigabytes was not enough

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                            • zacryon@feddit.orgZ [email protected]

                              Ah yes. Seagate. The trash storage device company. If you want to burn your money, just throw it into a fire before buying this e-waste.

                              Can not recommend.

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                              They're mechanical drives, every mechanical drive company has issues. I have had 4 of the 20tb drives in a truenas setup since last summer with zero issues. Drives in this size should be redundant and under warranty, expect drives to die, they're consumables. Replace, resilver, move on with life.

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                                If you aren't running a home server with tons of storage, this product is not for you. If the price is right, 40TB to 50TB is a great upgrade path for massive storage capacity without having to either buy a whole new backplane to support more drives or build an entirely new server. I see a lot of comments comparing 4TB SSDS to 40TB HDD's so had to chime in. Yes, they make massive SSD storage arrays too, but a lot of us don't have those really deep pockets.

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                                Thank you! I lol'd at the guy with one in his main PC lol. Like why?

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                                  I'd buy two and only turn the other on for a once a month backup. For one lone pirate just running two drives, it would be endgame basically. You're good.

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                                  I wish. I've got 6000 movies, 200 series, 300k songs, games, etc. pushing 30tb usage. I need to redo my setup, right now it's raid 10. I know it's not the most efficient with space, but I feel much better about redundancy.

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                                    Wow great. From seagate. The company that produces drives with the by far lowest life expectancy compared to the competiton

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                                      Hey! You! Get offa the Cloud (and grab yourself one of those drives). You can keep your thoughts to yourself, now you can keep your data to yourself, like in the recent old times.

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                                        They're mechanical drives, every mechanical drive company has issues. I have had 4 of the 20tb drives in a truenas setup since last summer with zero issues. Drives in this size should be redundant and under warranty, expect drives to die, they're consumables. Replace, resilver, move on with life.

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                                        Sure. But in my experience Seagate drives are significantly worse. So why spend money on a shit company producing shit drives, if I can spend it on products of another company where I get more use and lifetime out of the product?

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                                          How about a 122.88tb SSD? Large SSDs are pretty common in the enterprise market and arguably much easier to manufacture since you only need to put a bunch of nand chips on a pcb.

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                                          Sure, but those that know of this, know that these news articles aren't talking about ssd. This is hype news for consumer stuff.

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