In a conference call this week, Seagate offered new details on its progress in bringing hard drives exceeding 30TB to the enterprise and consumer markets late this...
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
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.
I recently migrated my QNAP NAS from 20TB single with a 2nd drive to RAID1. It did a rebuild that took just over 48h. Then I added another drive and migrated to RAID5. It did again just over 48h rebuild. So it's not too bad.