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Seagate's mass-produced HAMR hard drives to debut at 32TB, followed by 40TB (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 years ago by setInner234@feddit.de to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we've hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don't turn out to be outrageously expensive, I'll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable

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[–] setInner234@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aren't RAID rebuilds on 16TB drives already like a week? Maybe those HAMR drives will have two actuators, but I still don't think that'll speed things up much.

[–] Flukemaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

If you have an SMR drive ZFS resilvers can take upwards of three weeks haha