michaelmalak@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months agoSeagate has launched a massive 29TB hard disk drive that almost nobody noticed — but you can only buy the biggest ever HDD in a 2.5PB 4U serverwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down11
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkSeagate has launched a massive 29TB hard disk drive that almost nobody noticed — but you can only buy the biggest ever HDD in a 2.5PB 4U serverwww.techradar.commichaelmalak@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareuluqat@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months ago“The 4RU chassis can be fitted with 106 3.5-inch hard drives…” 106 x 29 = 3074 terabytes 2.5 petabytes = 2500 terabytes 3074 - 2500 = 574 terabytes 574 / 29 = 19.79 so about 19 or 20 drives out of the total 106 used for (parity? hot swap?). I have a feeling that this might be slightly out of my budget.
“The 4RU chassis can be fitted with 106 3.5-inch hard drives…”
106 x 29 = 3074 terabytes
2.5 petabytes = 2500 terabytes
3074 - 2500 = 574 terabytes
574 / 29 = 19.79 so about 19 or 20 drives out of the total 106 used for (parity? hot swap?).
I have a feeling that this might be slightly out of my budget.