I know it's all theory at this point but do you think OS 6.x will support the new 8TB shingled magnetic recording drives? Retail is $260 which is certainly a bargain. Currently being shipped to Amazon they should be available the first of the year.
I'm buying into some large storage and wondering if I should hold off for a while...
Would love to hear if these things would work and would be suitable in a ReadyNAS. MMM, 24GB online in a 4 bay…
24 GB? :slap:
Though the trend is pretty amazing when you think about it. 10 years ago 500 GB hard drives were just being introduced (and we all thought they were huge!).
Totally! 32TB in physical space in just 3.5"x5.75"x4" for under $1000. I actually originally typed GB because this just doesn't make sense! It's a bit like the magic I felt when I first saw an ATTO Silicon Drive at MacWorld Expo Boston
Outfitted with enterprise-class reliability and support for archive workloads, it features multi-drive RV tolerance for consistent enterprise-class performance in high density environments.
I'm not too familiar with these specs, but 180TB/year workload rate limit sounds like it could work in many environments.
The 4TB Segate NAS Drives I just picked up compare like this: Load/Unload Cycles 600,000 (2x the 8TB) Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read, Max 1 per 10E14 (same as the 8TB) Workload Rate Limit (TB/year) Could not find Power-On Hours 8760 (24×7) (same as the 8TB) Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) (hours) 1MM (+200K) Limited Warranty (years) 3
Works for me with a bunch of backup. Definitely interested in what an expected workload rate limit is, as I wouldn't think 180 TB on an 8TB is a huge amount for some applications. I've typically used enterprise drives, but the NAS drives these days just look so good for the money
It's advertised as an "Archive HD" I believe the main application is "cold storage" that needs to be available, but isn't accessed often. There's a two-year old article on SMR here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/competitio ... mr-drives/
Early technology was quite sensitive to vibration, so it will be interesting to see how the Seagate stacks up in that regard.
The article ahpsi links in describes the 180TB workload as "light" and 550TB as "heavy".
That datasheet also claims that 550 TB/year is 10x the workload of a desktop drive, but that spec is (not surprisingly) missing on both their desktop and NAS datasheets.
If I got the math correct its about 90 minutes a day usage at 100 MB/sec. That would work for many backup scenarios.
It's also enough for over 8000 hours of BluRay streaming a year (and much more at lower rates), so it sounds like enough for most people's multimedia libraries.
