Western Digital recently announced new data center HDDs that increase Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) capacity to 32TB and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity to 26TB. The company...
  • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

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

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      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

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 hours ago

        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).

      • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 hours ago

        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.