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Reliable CMR shuckers? Or am I better off getting Reds or Ultrastars or something these days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm in Australia, the steep sales don't really exist. Shucking still saves me heaps.

Optical Storage Media: Does it make sense to turn this thought experiment into a real experiment? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This looks like a great study! While there is less interest, optical storage is absolutely not dead.

  • You should quantify "used many hours". It's unlikely you will get meaningful results if you test a brand new drive, versus one used for 10 hours. However, brand new vs 1000 hours; now that would be meaningful.

  • How will you be storing the disks, and simulating accelerated aging? Poor quality burns or materials might degrade quicker, but not be different initially.

  • If there is an easy way for individuals like me to contribute funding, I'd happy chuck in a couple hundred bucks to support.

REVIEW: 8TB Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD Review: QLC Sets Sane Expectations, Insane Pricing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's a QLC drive. It literally isn't fast enough to consume 3.1 Gen 1. Sustained writes are like 60MB/s.

REVIEW: 8TB Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD Review: QLC Sets Sane Expectations, Insane Pricing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Who makes the NAND for it? YMTC QLC are known to fail, but never had an issue with Samsung QLC.

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Is a 20 disk raidz3 really a bad idea, for media archiving use cases? (alien.top)
 

I am archiving a vast amount of media files that are rarely accessed. I'm writing large sequential files, at peaks of about 100MB/s.

I want to maximise storage space primarily; I have 20x 18TB HDDs.

I've been told that large (e.g. 20 disk) vdevs are bad because resilvers will take a very long time, which creates higher risk of pool failure. How bad of an idea is this?