Assuming you aren't striping, up to 36 TB. If you follow even halfway decent practices with basically any kind of RAID other than 0, hopefully 0 Bytes.

The main worry with stuff like this is that it potentially takes a while to recover from a failed drive even if you catch it in time (alert systems are your friend). And 36 TB is a LOT of data to work through and recover which means a LOT of stress on the remaining drives for a few days.

Defragmenting...

about 36TB?

Do you need it? Probably not. Do you want it? Oh, yeah.

I feel seen

I think if I needed to store 36TB of data, I would rather get several smaller disks.

But if you hate your data there's no quicker way to lose it than a single 36TB Seagate drive.

It will take about 36 hours to fill this drive at 270mb/s

That’s a long time to backup your giraffe porn collection.

I don't think the target audience of this drive is buying one. They are trying to optimize for density and are probably buying in bulk rather than paying the $800 price tag.

You'd go broke. Of course it's all Linux, family archives and DNA test data, BTC blockchain, backed up FOSS projects, archives of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and OpenStreetMap, and of course - POVRay renders.

That's why Seagate is the last word in the title.

Just say it's full of porn, it's easier to explain

aren’t striping

I think you mean "are striping".

But even with striping you have backups right? Local redundancy is for availability, not durability.

I paid $600+ for a 24 TB drive, tax free. I feel robbed. Although I'm glad not to shop at Newegg.

But if you need a Petabyte of data you'll appreciate this existing

Summon Linus

Nooooooooo not all my pr0ns!!

I've never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.

Words hard

And I would go so far as to say that nobody who is buying 36 TB spinners is doing offsite backups of that data. For any org doing offsites of that much data you are almost guaranteed using a tape drive of some form because... they pay for themselves pretty fast and are much better for actual cold storage backups.

Seagate et al keep pushing for these truly massive spinners and I really do wonder who the market is for them. They are overly expensive for cold storage and basically any setup with that volume of data is going to be better off slowly rotating out smaller drives. Partially because of recovery times and partially because nobody but a sponsored youtuber is throwing out their 24 TB drives because 36 TB hit the market.

I assume these are a byproduct of some actually useful tech that is sold to help offset the costs while maybe REALLY REALLY REALLY want 72 TBs in their four bay Synology.

Yeah, but it's Seagate. I have worked in data centers, and Seagate drives had the most failures of all my drives and somehow is still in business. I'd say I was doing an RMA of 5-6 drives a month that were Seagate, and only 4-5 a year Western Digital.

What kind of degenerate do you think I am? That’s 36 hours to back up my walrus porn collection.