It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2025-03-26 18:08:06.

I need to offload a bulk of data from my RAID6, and was thinking of getting the 28TB drives. Are these drives just recertified, or do they have platter(s) disabled because 28 is just an unusual number. Also, are these drives HAMR or SMR or PMR?

The data I'm going to offload (BD / UHD Full discs), they are not extremely important like photos etc. but I did spend a lot of time collecting them. I am not sure, maybe I will get two drives and have two copies. But how are these drives in general? Those who are using these new drives (24 / 26 / 28), what are your gut feelings about these drives?