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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They scare you because you're concerned about failure rate?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like the complexity and precision needed to make it work, at mass produced volumes. But I guess you could translate that to feat of unreliability.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Undoubtedly going to have a higher failure rate, however in my experience WD's enterprise drives are extremely high reliability regardless.

Once these hit the surplus market in ~5 years they'll be neat (if we get them in SATA) for ZFS RAID arrays; faster rebuild speeds will be nice.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I already pre-bought drives for the replacement / expansion of my ZFS pool as the current drives fail so I'm locked into old technology for likely many years. 😔