for enterprise this is actually kinda bad news. with increasing capacities comes increasing issues. more data exposed to failures in a single blow, and more importantly huge super long rebuild times. and huge arrays that are hard to manage...
i want 10 of them personally though LOL
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Enterprise isn't anywhere near this market. These are consumer drives--enterprises serious about storage would use fully qualified 15k SAS drives and advanced RAID. The real problem, in my opinion, is that transfer speeds haven't increased at the same rate as capacities.Originally Posted by Computurd
Anyways, I think I'll settle for another 4 Samsung F4EG 2TB's (for a 6-drive RAID5) and another WD Black 1TB (for a 2-drive RAID1).
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They've been making some strides. I still have some old IDE drives that would struggle to give over 40MBps, while the latest and greatest SAS drives can do over 200MBps.
Sure its not like flash drives going from the same 30-40MBps to over 550MBps (and in a shorter period) but its different technology.
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