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thewayneWOW. WD did a bunch of new product announcements yesterday, these were perhaps the biggies.
From the article: "The 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 drives use tech called shingled magnetic recording, or SMR, to boost the amount of data that can fit on each platter, at the expense of performance." Interesting. I was unaware of this SMR tech. Cool stuff!
An article on Ars from late January said that Seagate and WD drives in the 20 TB area ran around $600. I've always wanted a wireless SAN in my house for near backup and storage, one of these mirrored to a second would be perfectly adequate at a fairly low cost.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/western-digital-announces-26tb-hard-drives-and-15tb-server-ssds/
From the article: "The 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 drives use tech called shingled magnetic recording, or SMR, to boost the amount of data that can fit on each platter, at the expense of performance." Interesting. I was unaware of this SMR tech. Cool stuff!
An article on Ars from late January said that Seagate and WD drives in the 20 TB area ran around $600. I've always wanted a wireless SAN in my house for near backup and storage, one of these mirrored to a second would be perfectly adequate at a fairly low cost.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/western-digital-announces-26tb-hard-drives-and-15tb-server-ssds/
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Date: 2022-05-11 12:38 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2022-05-11 12:48 am (UTC)In 1995, I was manufacturing on a RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) system that used multiple hard drives linked together to create reliable mass storage for banks. Our system cost $10,000, and provided 1 GB of storage. I though nobody would ever be able to fill it.
In 2005, I purchased a SD card to put in my Palm Pilot to let me watch videos on the bus as I went to work. It cost $135, and had 1 GB of storage. I thought I never would be able to fill it.
Now I want one of these 26 TB hard drives, even though I don't see how I will ever be able to fill it.
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Date: 2022-05-11 08:20 pm (UTC)2005, do you recall what model Palm Pilot you were using? I started with a Palm III in the '90s, used a Vx later, then something else that was a POS when the company started self-destructing. I later switched to an iPod Touch after a Dell WinCE box proved futile, and that moved me into the iPhone architecture which I absolutely love. I wish I could go back in time and document the networks that I managed working for the state '88-92 and the police dept from '92-'01. It would be interesting to see how much space I managed.
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Date: 2022-05-12 11:36 pm (UTC)