Posted on 04/07/2014 8:14:11 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Enterprise Drive so far.
Serial-attached SCSI!
Good to see SCSI's not dead.
Seagate Vows to Introduce 6TB Hard Drive in April.
Xbitlabs ^ | [01/27/2014 04:39 AM] by Anton Shilov | by Anton Shilov
Posted on Fri 31 Jan 2014 11:36:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I know what you’re thinking:
“Disks still spin?”
7200 RPM. I think I will wait for some user experience with this before I buy. This has to be prone to crash.
[ Serial-attached SCSI!
Good to see SCSI’s not dead. ]
The hardware is dead, thankfully, the protocol is still alive and well!
There was a time it seemed like they were coming out with a new SCSI cable type every month...
21TB left to go... Before we can backup my brain...
When western digital comes out then I will be interested. I’ve found they’ve held the best for me.
Only assume it has similar MTBF. Pretty incredible density!
From 0 to 6 TB in 4000 seconds ....
Interesting how anecdotes drive us. I would step over a WD to pick up a Fujitsu or Seagate. But the funny thing is, I can’t really explain why. Just personal experience, I suppose.
Fujitsu drives seem OK. But just about every Seagate I ever knew of, swapped, etc by me and what other technical types I know tended to fail prematurely too many times.
There's a lot of good stuff in the tech (and protocol).
Back years ago (I think before I ever got a multicore CPU), I had an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card — anyway, one day a friend needed to do some work ripping & naming songs on a collection of CDs so we started ripping to a shared folder on a SCSI-drive so he sat in the other room accessing new rips to listen to and renaming them while I did work on my computer (IIRC is was fairly processor intensive)… no discernible slowdown in disk-access, CPU-performance, or rip-quality.
Performance like that was worth the extra bucks for SCSI on my desktop.
Drives like this are basically going to kill RAID5. We’re just going to have to suck up the write penalty of RAID6 and call it a day.
TTIUWP!!!
P = PRICE POINT!!!!!
> Unstructured data growth is doubling exponentially and will propel the digital universe to reach 16 Zettabytes of data by as early as 2017.
16 Zettabytes — that’s a lot of selfies, eh?
Thanks E.
How Big Is A Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, Or A Yottabyte?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/11/how-big-is-a-petabyte-exabyte-zettabyte-or-a-yottabyte.html
Funny, every time I think about Seagate, I think of their Sleezegate reputation from the 90’s. I don’t have much personal experience but read it enough it just kind of stuck. I still pretty much avoid them.
I’m impressed that they were doing 7200 rpm when they shipped it, I wonder what they were driving.
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