I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we’ve hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don’t turn out to be outrageously expensive, I’ll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable
Aren’t RAID rebuilds on 16TB drives already like a week? Maybe those HAMR drives will have two actuators, but I still don’t think that’ll speed things up much.
If you have an SMR drive ZFS resilvers can take upwards of three weeks haha
Omg don’t remind me of the SMR fiasco. I once bought an SMR drive by accident and didn’t understand why overwriting lots of small files happened at like 5kbps…I couldn’t believe it when I found out!