Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD
by sytelus on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:37AM
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I'd few of 8GB ones and they were truely horrible. They ran super slow and then to top it of they started making noises with very light usage within months. I'm just not sure how reliable these are...
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Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD
by drivethrowinguy on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:45AM
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Are you sure that you had Seagate EC drives, and not Seagate Archive drives? The latter are DM-SMR and therefore poorly suited to pretty much anything doing random write I/O (e.g. rsyncing directory trees, rdiff-backup and so on). However, with the correct workload (object store, log-oriented storage) they perform admirably, especially for their price.
With DM-SMR strange noises and paranormal drive activity has to be expected since the drive can spend considerable time flushing it's PMR buffer (~16 GiB) to the shingled zones.