Finally, a hard drive with the capacity to install more than 2 AAA game titles at once.
But can it handle AAAA games?
Yes cause they're smaller
This is obviously just in preparation for future AAA game sizes
When I bought my first PC about 1982. The seller told me that I would never live long enough to fill up the 10MB drive. I still bought the 40MB drive and it was still too small.
I remember getting a 2 GB hard drive and thinking I'll never be able to fill it up. Now I have video files more then 10 times that size
I think you might be off by a few years at least, a 40MB drive in 1982 would've been incredibly uncommon.
Idk man.
In the 1980s 8-inch drives used with some mid-range systems increased from a low of about 30 MB in 1980, to a top-of-the-line 3 GB in 1989.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives
Seems like 30MB wasn't horribly uncommon in "mid-range systems" in 1980, so I doubt that 40MB in 1982 would've been "incredibly uncommon."
But I've no personal experience from the time.
"Mid-range systems" is not referring to personal computers. "8-inch drives" is another clue.
True, he did say PC, fair enough.
Awesome can't wait til they're cheap so I can replace my many hard drives with just one much larger one.
Make sure you buy two of them so you've got a backup. I'm uncomfortable storing 16TB worth of data on one drive, no way am I putting 32TB of anything I give a shit about onto one drive.
You can buy large second hand enterprise hard disks for relatively cheap. 20TB disks are like 250 bucks.
Still not enough to hold all my porn.
Holy shit how addicted are you?
Least addicted porn downloader.
Perhaps there are content provider. Shooting in RAW stakes of a lot of space.
No god, so how big is the new CoD going to be?
One petabyte.
I look forward to a Backblaze analysis in a few years.
Wonder what the bit error rates are like at that density in practice.
They're actually 128TB drives, but everything has to be written four times.
Will raid 6 still be viable at this size or will this require something like raid 10 or even moving beyond raid.
My solution is RAIDZ5 and storing the backup on LTO6 tape with parity/erasure code. I think the fact that scrub times take 24 hours even on 16TB drives is already over the safety margin. If a drive failure happens, the first thing I'll do to run a manual diff backup which should take a fraction of the time and then run the ZFS resilver.
I'm beginning to see why SSD RAID is being considered now. My guess for HDDs in enterprise is that a RAID 15 (I made this up) would be considered. What I mean is data is stored on two identical servers each running RAID5 or 6. Off the shelf solutions like Gluster exist and that seems to be gaining traction at least according to Linus Tech Tips.
That's enough for the entire filmography of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in beautiful 1080p (upscaled using world class software), and it would probably still be enough for some of the early shows of Cartoon Network, at least in 480p.
But then it would take ages to load anyway since it's a hard drive and therefore has moving parts, leading to a significantly higher failure rate.
Ages is an understatement. This drive uses two new technologies that essentially expand the track momentarily plus smr
Eons perhaps?
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