twelveparsex
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Still not enough for my porn collection.
Delete your midget collection and you'll be fine
Shhh!!! dont tell those weirdos in General Gaming about this pre-order. They will blow a gasket about pre-orders
I preordered.
Nothing wrong with Seagate at all.
Ya is there any DLC bonus to pre-order? I'd like at least 2 free firmware patches.
On a serious note these prices are insane. Not many people can justify 8TB, I mean for the general public. So 8TB for $250 is amazing.
WARNING - this is a Shingled Magnetic Recording/SMR drive. It can't just modify or erase data like a normal drive- it's tracks overlap outer and inner tracks of data that also have to get rewritten. Thats why this is an ARCHIVE drive.
If you're just using it as data-dump, it'll work fine. But if you're trying to use it like a normal drive, you may find it inordinately painful.
Read up.
Still...if I need a drive for cold storage/to go in the safe, this should work fine, yes?
that's a lot of data to lose. even with the ability to mirror, i'd have to see some reliability data before i dropped any money on these.
I would be curious what its performance numbers are for conventional use and its MTBF.
5,900 RPM (runs cool), 128MB cache, average read/write sequentials 150MB/sec (190MB/s at outer edge), 3-year warranty, fairly high MTBF of 800,000 hours, designed - or at least claimed - for 24/7 use.
Ding ding ding, congratulations! You're this thread's "That's a lot of data to lose" guy! Whenever a bigger size drive comes out, there's always one. Don't feel bad, people have been derping that ever since 20MB drives. Apparently there are still enough people that have never heard of backups. I love you all!
Always makes me laugh this. Who the fuck doesn't backup the data they don't want to lose?
Ding ding ding, congratulations! You're this thread's "That's a lot of data to lose" guy! Whenever a bigger size drive comes out, there's always one. Don't feel bad, people have been derping that ever since 20MB drives. Apparently there are still enough people that have never heard of backups. I love you all!
seagate has been proven to have the worst AFR of the manufacturers.
Citation needed. (and no pressure but I do hope you link the unscientific Backblaze stats - I need a good laugh today)
As for the rest of that drivel, not sure what RAID arrays have to do with anything, these drives weren't intended for striped arrays, and RAID or not it certainly doesn't change the pointlessness of someone saying "derp that's a lot of data to lose". RAID is not a backup mechanism. Its a performance and uptime multiplier, that's it. As long as you have two or more copies of your data then that's all that matters. People can continue to circlejerk all day long about "I once had a XYZ brand and it failed, but my ZYX brand is still going strong, therefore ZYX is da best!" but won't change its statistical meaninglessness.
How would this drive par for running emulators and roms in an arcade pc build?
I preordered.
Nothing wrong with Seagate at all.
wouldn't say that...
Wow, just when we think SSD is going to replace HDD, blammo! I wonder how durable/reliable these dense 8 TB HDDs will be.
Only a fool thinks SSD's were replacing spinners any time soon.
'reliability' is a metric that is determined by your last backup.
Well about reliability, higher quality HDDs have a higher mean time between failure than lower quality HDDs. Of course, regardless of the HDD quality/reliability, proper backup is important.