It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Biologisten on 2024-09-29 23:18:56.

When checking disk activity on my 2x3TB array I get constant 100% utilization and >2 seconds of average queue time. The HDDs are WD RED 5400rpm 64MB cache. I am using this array to seed so it is almost only reading, I can never fully utilize my upload bandwidth and I have made sure the HDD is the bottleneck rather than connectivity. How much would new HDDs with more cache and 7200rpm help? Would it be better to use some SSDs for the most active torrents instead. Would love to use the cheap high capacity HDDs but i wonder if the problem lies with high seektimes and many small reads in which case SSDs are much greater.