for POrn, but who downloads porn nowadays. unless its the illegal kind.

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.

Get your meds, man

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"

humble homelabbers masquerading

LMAO!!

Indeed, 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

I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet

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.

That's not how computers work, but sure bro.

Do people actually use such massive hard drives? I still have my 1 TB HDD in my PC (and a 512 GB SSD), lol.

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.

Pretty sure I had a bigger hard drive than that for my Amiga. You could have broken a toe if you’d dropped it.

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.

Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it's mostly enterprise use.

Still, I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.

As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.

Is Seagate still producing shitty drives that fail a few days after the warranty expired?

It's not really Ext4 doing that, it's a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.

You'll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.

Hey, they told you how long they expected it to last

But it is a hard drive requirement.

Any hint about the ironwolfs?

I mean a backup of a RAID pool is likely just another RAID pool (ideally off-site) – maybe a tape library if you've got considerable cash.

Point is that mfg refurbs are basically fine, just be responsible, if your backup pool runs infrequently then that's a good candidate for more white label drives.