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WOW. 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/
