Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
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More like zero, cause modern AAA games require an NVME (or at least an SSD) and this is a good old fashioned 7200 RPM drive.
Surely no games actually require an SSD?
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That’s fine…they don’t need to release it under their Exos line of enterprise drives. SMR don’t do well in raid arrays especially not highly utilized ones. They require idle time to cleanup and the rebuild times are horrendous.
There are a number of enterprise storage systems optimized specifically for SMR drives. This is targeting actual data centers, not us humble homelabbers masquerading as enterprises.
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Surely no games actually require an SSD?
A lot of modern AAA games require an SSD, actually.
On top of my head:
Cyberpunk, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space remake, Starfield, Baulder's Gate 3, Palworld, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart -
No, but I have downloaded yours.
I have seeded your mom.
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Are people still mining chia ?
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A lot of modern AAA games require an SSD, actually.
On top of my head:
Cyberpunk, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space remake, Starfield, Baulder's Gate 3, Palworld, Ratchet & Clank: Rift ApartIt's not a hard requirement.
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It's not a hard requirement.
They stream data from it while you play, so if you don't have an SSD you'll get pauses in game play.
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for POrn, but who downloads porn nowadays. unless its the illegal kind. to the idiot below who brigaded and downvoted, i was repeating other people saying it was for porn.
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They stream data from it while you play, so if you don't have an SSD you'll get pauses in game play.
Sure, you might.
But Baulder’s Gate 3 for example, which claims to require an SSD in it's system requirements runs just fine on a HDD.
It's just the developer making sure you get optimal performance.
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for POrn, but who downloads porn nowadays. unless its the illegal kind. to the idiot below who brigaded and downvoted, i was repeating other people saying it was for porn.
Get your meds, man
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Makes me shudder. I have to replace a drive in my array, because it is degraded. It's a 4TB. Imagine having to replace one of these. I'd much rather have a bunch of cheaper drives, even if they are a bit more expensive per TB, because the replacement cost will eventually make the total cost of ownership lower.
Also, repeat with me: "Please give me a Toshiba or Hitachi, please"
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There are a number of enterprise storage systems optimized specifically for SMR drives. This is targeting actual data centers, not us humble homelabbers masquerading as enterprises.
humble homelabbers masquerading
LMAO!!
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A lot of modern AAA games require an SSD, actually.
On top of my head:
Cyberpunk, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space remake, Starfield, Baulder's Gate 3, Palworld, Ratchet & Clank: Rift ApartIndeed, as others have said this isn't a hard requirement. Anyone with a handheld (e.g. Steam Deck) playing off a uSD card uses a device that's an order of magnitude slower for sequential I/O
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It's not a hard requirement.
I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet
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If you've got a RAID array with 1 or 2 parity then manufacturer recertified drives are fine; those are typically drives that just aged out before being deployed, or were traded in when a large array upgraded.
If you're really paranoid you should be mixing mfg dates anyway, so keep some factory new and then add the recerts so the drive pools have a healthy split.
Yep staggering manufacturing dates is a good suggestion. I do it but it does make purchasing during sales periods to get good prices harder. Better than losing multiple drives at once, but RAID needs a backup anyway and nobody should skip that step.
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I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet
That's not how computers work, but sure bro.
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Do people actually use such massive hard drives? I still have my 1 TB HDD in my PC (and a 512 GB SSD), lol.
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Nah, as a fellow data hoarder you're 100% correct. I have a couple of dozen disks, and I've had failures from both Seagate and WD, but the Seagates have failed much more often. For the past couple of years, I've only purchased WD for this reason. I'm down to two Seagate drives now.
I feel like many people with a distaste for WD got burned by the consumer drives (especially the WD Greens). WD's DC line is so good though, especially HC530.
I mostly buy new Toshiba drives now. The WD blue drives are fine. I have a few of them. I have a WD red that is reporting surface errors, it's still going and the number of errors hasn't increased so I'm not stressing replacing it. Also, btrfs gives me peace of mind because I can periodiclly check if my filesystem has corrupted data.
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Pretty sure I had a bigger hard drive than that for my Amiga. You could have broken a toe if you’d dropped it.
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no thanks Seagate. the trauma of losing my data because of a botched firmware with a ticking time bomb kinda put me off your products for life.
see you in hell.
