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Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD by loeg on Thursday March 16, 2017 @07:20PM (#13890033)
Anywhere space is at a premium. PB/rack matters some places.
Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD by walrus01 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @07:51PM (#13890207)
Particularly anywhere that $$$/rack per mo and $ per kWh matters. Such as a medium sized CDN or backup service (Backblaze, etc) that wants to cram as many 3.5" drives into a 4U chassis as possible. If one is colocating multiple racks of 4U sized servers as close as possible to a major IX point, the rack space and power costs go up considerably.