My first seagate HD started clicking as I was moving data to it from my older drive just after I purchased it. This was way back in the 00s. In a panic, I started moving data back to my older hd (because I was moving jnstead of copying) and then THAT one started having issues also.

Turns out when I overclocked my CPU I had forgotten to lock the PCI bus, which resulted in an effective overclock of the HDD interfaces. It was ok until I tried moving mass amounts of data and the HDD tried to keep up instead of letting the buffer fill up and making the OS wait.

I reversed the OC and despite the HDDs getting so close to failure, both of them lasted for years after that without further issue.

This is how I know I'm getting old, my first thought was "spinning rust for always on long term storage" and then I remembered it's 2025 and SSD's are about equal now.

Get off my lawn, your interrupting Matlock!

Oh wow does it come with glowing green computery looking stuff like in the picture

That's pretty impressive a couple of those and you could probably download the next Call Of Duty.

I do like that the picture on an article about a 40 TB drive is clearly labelled as 1 TB. Like couldn't they have edited the image?

This picture: brought to you by some bullshit AI

I've been buying computer stuff for like 30 years and never once has any of it had any weird glowing stuff like on the box

CAN WE PLEASE JUST GET 3.5" SSDS. PLEASE

Hard drives are also relatively cheap and fast enough for many purposes. My PCs use SSDs for system drives but HDDs for some data drives, and my NAS will use hard drives until SSDs become more affordable.

Best I can do is a 3.5'' inch SATA to USB adapter case with one of these tiny SSDs glued in

depends on a lot of factors. If you only need ~30TB of storage and two spare RAID disks, 3x 40TB disks will be much more costly than 6x 10TB disks, or even 4x 20TB disks.

You need to be getting the radon infused versions.

If 50TB is coming fast, then so am I

Correct about the greens. They used to be (might still be) the ones that ran at a lower RPM

Agreed, it’s getting out of control. The most annoying thing is I’m not interested in PvP, just zombies, so probably 80% of that is all just bloat on my hard drive.

cool 50tb. i can now download more stuff.

Did it use 45 GB extra or were there just 45 GB worth of changes?

I know right. Why is this not a thing already? I mean I understand the various U.2, U.3, and EDSFF are great for high density data center installs. We have a 1U box in production that could be as high as 1 PB given current densities with E1.L drives but that’s enterprise level stuff. I just want a huge 3.5 SSD I could put in these pro-consumer level NAS boxes or maybe even one I could build myself for my home lab.

Thru exist but they're all several hundred dollars and 480 GB for some reason.