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No 2.5" HAMR drives on the horizon? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JohnTheFisherman142 on 2025-06-01 13:05:35.

I keep hearing how 3.5" go 24, 26, 28TB and soon there's gonna be 30-- Actually I don't want any of this.

What I'd like is 2.5" 8TB drives. Plop 8 of those into Z2 or R6. And: with proper power management. I used to run a bunch of Toshiba 3TB desktop drives in raid5 (yes I know) that would spin down via hdparm when the OS did not detected any disk IO in 15minutes. Worked a charm. New Toshis don't give adamn about what hdparm tells them.

With my setup I could have all my storage no further away than a 5 seconds spin-up and still go easy on the power bill. I don't want 4x14TB 3.5" in this gen8 microserver running 24/7 now even when nobody's home.

So-- is there any news that these capacities will come to 2.5" desktop drives?

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