WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

There is already a samsung 8 Tb SSD being sold on amazon. Buying 4 of those will be far cheaper than this monstrosity. And it will be silent, and actually useful as a home server, much faster too.

No shot 4 SSDs will be the same price as a HDD of the same capacity yet. HDD is still the king of GB/$.

If I’m wrong… Can you send me some links? I could use some cheap 8TB SSDs.

Aliexpress/cheap-fake-ssd-16TB 80€

I trust ali with a lot, but not drives :-)

Nah I don’t believe you at all.

SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA 8TB = $683.38 x 4 = $2,733.52

8TB x 4 = 32TB

$2,733.52 / 32TB = $85.4225/TB

Yeah one of these disks does not cost more than $25/TB.

26TB x $25 = $650

QVO drives are trash though. Would not recommend. Very slow and they don’t last as long as Samsung’s EVO and PRO drives.

FWIW in July last year Amazon was selling these as low as $320. My biggest fear of a 26 TB HDD is getting all 26 TB of data off of it if I needed it without the drive dying.

As long as you follow the 3-2-1 rule, you don’t need to worry about putting your eggs in one basket.

Damn, how are you so confident?

Nobody will remember or care if he’s wrong.

If you eyeballing these, please remind that these babies tend to be LOUD AS FUCK, so might not be suitable for home server use.

Are they any louder than any HDD from the last 30 years?

If so, im actually curious why that is

Edit: fixed to say HDD not SSD

Oops, yes. I definitely would expect these to be much louder than your 6 GB 1998 model HDD wrangling under stress of copying files at 30 MB/s.

Tell that to my IBM 10GB 10.000 RPM U2W SCSI from back then. To this day I have never witnessed a noisier harddrive… But that PC was pretty epic, including the biggest mf of a mainboard I ever had (the SCSI controller was onboard).

Your everyday modern HDD does not much more than 60MB/s after the on-disk cache (a few GB) is full.

Well I have no experience with these particular drives, but they do seem to have 11 platters. Which is beyond insane as far as I’m concerned. More platters means more moving parts, more friction more noise (all other things being equal).

My NAS uses a pair of SAS drives, and they make noises at boot up that would be concerning in a desktop. They’re quite obnoxious. But I keep them in part of the house where they don’t bother me.

I’ve found that the only thing you can hear through a closed basement door are noisy high speed fans, e.g. from used 19" servers, disks produce much less noise.

Comparatively, yes - that’s auditory masking for you. On a relatively quiet place like a home, these will sound like rats running wild in your pipes.

Nah, I’m living outside the US, my home is made from proper bricks and concrete. A bit slower to build but rather good when it comes to sound insulation. I could imagine with those strand board walls that might be a problem though.

Just don’t put it in your bedroom. All those dead skin cells wouldn’t do good to it anyway.

Since when is dust a concern for hard drives??

I was talking about the server in general

Think of the parity!

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