Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
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Word for the wise, those externals usually won't last 5+ years of constant use as an internal.
I've got 6 in a random mix of brands (Seagate and WD) 8-16Tb that are all older than that. Running 24/7 storing mostly random shit I download. Pulled one out recently because the USB controller died. Still works in a different enclosure now.
I'd definitely have a different setup for data I actually cared about.
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36 Typical Bananas
28 plantains
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That's a lot of porn. And possibly other stuff, too.
It isn't as much as you think, high resolution, high bitrate video files are pretty large.
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If you're relying on one hard drive not failing to preserve your data you are doing it wrong from the jump. I've got about a dozen hard drives in play from seagate and WD at any given time (mostly seagate because they're cheaper and I don't need speed either) and haven't had a failure yet. Backblaze used to publish stats about the hard drives they use, not sure if they still do but that would give you some data to go off. Seagate did put out some duds a while back but other models are fine.
The back blaze stats were always useless because they would tell you what failed long after that run of drives was available.
There are only 3 manufactures at this point so just buy one or two of each color and call it a day. ZFS in raid z2 is good enough for most things at this point.
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That's a lot of porn. And possibly other stuff, too.
And possibly other stuff, too.
Ehhh don't test me
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I'm gonna need like 6 of these
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Is it worth replacing within a year only to be sent a refurbished when it dies?
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That's not how computers work, but sure bro.
Okay well try telling that to my computer when the games wouldn't run without constantly freezing to load assets every few seconds.
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In my case, 10+years ago I had 6 * 3tb Seagate disks in a software raid 5. Two of them failed and it took me days to force it back into the raid and get some of the data off. Now I use WD and raid 6.
I read 3 or 4 years ago that it was just the 3tb reds I used had a high failure rate but I'm still only buying WDs
I had a single red 2TB in an old tivo roamio for almost a decade.
Pulled out this weekend, and finally tested it. Failed.
I was planning to move my 1.5T music collection to it. Glad I tested it first, lol.
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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.
I have just shy of 8TB of data on my home file server.
That's not including my NVR (for security cameras) which has a single 6TB SATA drive sitting around 40% capacity.
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Elaborate please?
what's behind the infamous Seagate BSY bug? - Page 1
what's behind the infamous Seagate BSY bug? - Page 1
(www.eevblog.com)
this thread has multiple documented instances of poor QA and firmware bugs Seagate has implemented at the cost of their own customers.
my specific issue was even longer ago, 20+ years. there was a bug in the firmware where there was a buffer overflow from an int limit on runtime. it caused a cascade failure in the firmware and caused the drive to lock up after it ran for the maximum into limit. this is my understanding of it anyway.
the only solution was to purchase a board online for the exact model of your HDD and swap it and perform a firmware flash before time ran out. I think you could also use a clip and force program the firmware.
at the time a new board cost as much as a new drive, finances of which I didn't have at the time.
eventually I moved past the 1tb of data I lost, but I will never willingly purchase another Seagate.
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Seems fine with a couple TB of SSDs to act as active storage with regular rsyncs back to the HDDs. This is fine.
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That's a lot of porn. And possibly other stuff, too.
Nah, the other stuff will all fit on your computer's hard drive, this is only for porn. They should call it the Porn Drive.
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This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.
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Seems fine with a couple TB of SSDs to act as active storage with regular rsyncs back to the HDDs. This is fine.
The first copy of anything big will suck ass.... and why else would you get a 36TB drive if not to copy a lot of data to it?
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This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.
This hard drive is so big when it moves, the Richter scale picks it up.
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This hard drive is so big when it moves, the Richter scale picks it up.
This hard drive is so big when it backs up it makes a beeping sound.
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I'm amazed it's only $800. I figured that shit was gonna be like 8-10 thousand.
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The first copy of anything big will suck ass.... and why else would you get a 36TB drive if not to copy a lot of data to it?
Does it really matter that much if the first copy takes a while though? Only doing it once and you don't even have to do it all in 1 go. Just let it run over the weekend would do though.
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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.
Every manufacturer has made a product that failed.
