• Ugurcan@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    If you eyeballing these, please remind that these babies tend to be LOUD AS FUCK, so might not be suitable for home server use.

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      18 days ago

      Are they any louder than any HDD from the last 30 years?

      If so, im actually curious why that is

      Edit: fixed to say HDD not SSD

    • varyingExpertise@feddit.org
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      17 days ago

      I’ve found that the only thing you can hear through a closed basement door are noisy high speed fans, e.g. from used 19" servers, disks produce much less noise.

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          17 days ago

          Nah, I’m living outside the US, my home is made from proper bricks and concrete. A bit slower to build but rather good when it comes to sound insulation. I could imagine with those strand board walls that might be a problem though.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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        17 days ago

        Drives like this are hermetically sealed with an inert gas like argon or helium on the inside. Even the presence of oxygen and nitrogen molecules can compromise the drive. If dust is getting to the moving parts of your hard drive, it’s toast no matter where it’s installed.

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    18 days ago

    Assuming that these have fairly impressive 100 MB/s sustained write speed, then it’s going to take about 93 hours to write the whole contents of the disk - basically four days. That’s a long time to replace a failed drive in a RAID array; you’d need to consider multiple disks of redundancy just in case another one fails while you’re resilvering the first.

    • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      My 16TB ultrastars get upwards of 180MB/s sustained read and write, these will presumably be faster than that as the density is higher.