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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!
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I can't wait to lose even more data when this thing bricks
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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If 50TB is coming fast, then so am I
No thanks. I'd rather have 4TB SSDs that cost $100. We were getting close to that in 2023, but then the memory manufacturers decided to collude and jacked up prices.
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thats a lot of ~~porn~~ high quality videos
Can't wait to see how these 40 TB hard drives, a wonderment of technology, will be used to further shove AI down my throat.
Hope you have a database for file management at that point.
…And it’s bound to be stupidly expensive.
Wish I could afford 20 of them, but not without winning the Powerball.
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cool 50tb. i can now download more stuff.
I deal with large data chunks and 40TB drives are an interesting idea.... until you consider one failing
raids and arrays for these large data sets still makes more sense then all the eggs in smaller baskets
The main issue I see is that the gulf between capacity and transfer speed is now so vast with mechanical drives that restoring the array after drive failure and replacement is unreasonably long. I feel like you'd need at least two parity drives, not just one, because letting the array be in a degraded state for multiple days while waiting for the data to finish copying back over would be an unacceptable risk.
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Oh thank God, 40,000 gigabytes was not enough
start building a media server. space goes quick. I'm sitting at about 100 TB right now and I'm running out of space.
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