4TB hard drives are really cheap now finally

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Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

Alereon posted:

every manufacturer has some gimmick to get to 6tb, i just think hitachis helium gimmick is coolest. this anandtech article is p. good. hitachi uses helium to cram seven 860gb platters into a drive, wd cuts rpm down to 5400 to cheaply cram 1.2tb on a platter and puts five of them in, seagate moved to a weird form factor to cram in a sixth 1tb platter.

e: 2.5" drives are faster/lower-power/more efficient for a given volume though. im surprised no one is making GBS threads out 4200rpm 2.5"x12.5mm NAS drives

isnt hitachi WD now anyway

or actually arent they supposed to be toshiba?

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Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

also seagate is garbage i had to stop buying them because they would literally all fail on me within like 4 months

# ¿ Jul 25, 2014 18:28

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

kinda curious exactly what this is, because fusion drives usually mean they have a dependance on OS X which is pretty much the only difference of hybrids

at work our video suite has this huge array of regular HD's in a cabinet. sometimes renders happen over night, and i think it would be a huge benefit to think about something faster

unless you're rendering fast enough to be limited by storage speed (this usually only happens when dumping something to disk or doing a stream copy) something faster really wont help much

i mean obv seek time or whatever might be a little better and you might get like 3-4 fps better but meh

# ¿ Jul 25, 2014 19:13

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

besides the way fusion drives work i dont think files being rendered would end up on the ssd anyway?

# ¿ Jul 25, 2014 19:15

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