This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!
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Oh wow does it come with glowing green computery looking stuff like in the picture
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:30 zuletzt editiert vonThe image is literally just the proprietary xbox drive plugged into an xbox
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CAN WE PLEASE JUST GET 3.5" SSDS. PLEASE
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:31 zuletzt editiert vonYeah, why aren't there any?
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Having been burned many times in the past, I won't even trust 40 GB to a Seagate drive let alone 40 TB.
Even in enterprise arrays where they're basically disposable when they fail, I'm still wary of them.
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:36 zuletzt editiert vonSame. Between work and home, I've had ~30 Seagate drives fail after less than a year. I stopped buying them for personal use many years ago, but work still insists, because they're cheaper. I have 1TB WD Black drives that are over ten years old and still running. My newest WD Black drive is a 6TB, and I've had it for seven years. I dunno if WD Black is still good, but that's the first one I'll try if I need a new drive.
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You should ideally run your own node when using Monero
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:47 zuletzt editiert von umbrella@lemmy.ml 6. Sept. 2025, 12:01.
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schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:50 zuletzt editiert von
Because with someone else's node, they can potentially track and log the transactions you make
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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.
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:55 zuletzt editiert von jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 6. Feb. 2025, 23:09yeah i still use hard drives for storing movies, logs, and backups on my Nas cluster, but using it for nextcloud or remote game storage is too slow. I also live in an apartment and the scrubs are too loud. There's only a 5:1 price premium, so it's worth just going all flash unless you have like 30tb storage needs.
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Yeah I would not touch RAID 5 in this day and age, it's just not safe enough and there's not much of an upside to it when SSDs of large capacity exist. RAID 1 mirror is fast enough with SSDs now, or you could go RAID 10 to amplify speed.
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 20:59 zuletzt editiert vontbf all the big storage clusters use either mirroring or erasure coding these days. For bulk storage, 4+2 or 8+2 erasure coding is pretty fast, but for databases you should always use mirroring to speed up small writes. but yeah for home use, just use LVM or zfs mirrors.
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CAN WE PLEASE JUST GET 3.5" SSDS. PLEASE
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 21:02 zuletzt editiert vonAren't a lot of the 2.5" ones already empty space?
How big, and how expensive, would a 3.5" SSD be, if it actually filled enough of the space with NAND chips for the form factor to be warranted?
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Oh, they'll do compression alright, they'll ship every asset in a dozen resolutions with different lossy compression algos so they don't need to spend dev time actually handling model and texture downscaling properly. And games will still run like crap because reasons.
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 21:09 zuletzt editiert vonGames can't really compress their assets much.
Stuff like textures generally use a lossless bitmap format. The compression artefacts you get with lossy formats, while unnoticable to the human eye, can cause much more visible rendering artefacts once the game engine goes to calculate how light should interact with the material.
That's not to say devs couldn't be more efficient, but it does explain why games don't really compress that well.
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And they’d only be like $5k each. HDD prices have gone ridiculous. I’d just like 20TB drives to be reasonably priced. 10TB drives are twice the price they were 5 years ago.
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Games can't really compress their assets much.
Stuff like textures generally use a lossless bitmap format. The compression artefacts you get with lossy formats, while unnoticable to the human eye, can cause much more visible rendering artefacts once the game engine goes to calculate how light should interact with the material.
That's not to say devs couldn't be more efficient, but it does explain why games don't really compress that well.
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 21:48 zuletzt editiert vonWhen I say "compress" I mean downscale. I'm suggesting they could have dozens of copies of each texture and model in a host of different resolutions (number of polygons, pixels for textures, etc), instead of handling that in the code. I'm not exactly sure how they currently do low vs medium vs high settings, just suggesting that they could solve that using a ton more data if they essentially had no limitations in terms of customer storage space.
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Yeah but it's not hovering or rotating unsupported in the air. The box said it was going to do that stuff. I'm pretty sure this doesn't even have any weird runes on it either
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We seem to be headed in that direction though. My most recent motherboard has built in LEDs for no practical reason other than "ooh shiny". Took me a minute to find the UEFI setting to disable that. "Stealth mode" apparently.
It's also increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to find wired mice, keyboards and headsets in that ever-increasing gulf between "all singing, all dancing, expensive gaming device full of unnecessary LEDs" and "cheap, awful, bare minimum". If it plugs in and there's a 5v rail nearby, gotta draw on that to be shiny! Anything else would be sacrilege!
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 21:54 zuletzt editiert vonI want everything wired, antennas and batteries usually don't make that stuff any better
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The image is literally just the proprietary xbox drive plugged into an xbox
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 21:55 zuletzt editiert vonI had an Xbox and it didn't do that either!!!
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I deal with large data chunks and 40TB drives are an interesting idea.... until you consider one failing
raids and arrays for these large data sets still makes more sense then all the eggs in smaller baskets
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 22:49 zuletzt editiert vonThese are literally only sold by the rack to data centers.
What are you going on about?
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Best I can do is a 3.5'' inch SATA to USB adapter case with one of these tiny SSDs glued in
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 23:06 zuletzt editiert von hitekrednek@lemm.ee 6. März 2025, 01:07Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.
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Yeah, why aren't there any?
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 23:23 zuletzt editiert vonThere are:
https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/They are just not listed in shops for poor people. (joking)
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Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 23:39 zuletzt editiert vonTriple? That'd rookie numbers.
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Aren't a lot of the 2.5" ones already empty space?
How big, and how expensive, would a 3.5" SSD be, if it actually filled enough of the space with NAND chips for the form factor to be warranted?
schrieb am 2. Juni 2025, 23:43 zuletzt editiert vonWell, Kioxia sells a 30TB 2.5in SSD right now for about $5k. I'm sure they could make a 60+TB SSD by just stacking 2 of them in a 3.5in case.
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I still wonder, what's stopping vendors from producing "chonk store" devices. Slow, but reliable bulk storage SSDs.
Just in terms of physical space, you could easily fit 200 micro SD cards in a 2.5" drive, have everything replicated five times and end up with a reasonably reliable device (extremely simplified, I know).
I just want something for luke-warm storage that didn't require a datacenter and/or 500W continuous power draw.
schrieb am 3. Juni 2025, 00:48 zuletzt editiert vonFlash drives are much worse than hard drives for cold storage. The charge in flash will leak.
If you want cheap storage, back it up to another drive and unplug it.
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