Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better

Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by justinclift on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:18PM (#31843153)

Those model numbers seem to be the HP part numbers. Don't HP rebadge drives from other vendors?

If so, then it would probably be useful to see if the vendor drive model numbers are available.

For the dramatic increase in iops, I wonder if there are more head+actuator assemblies on the newer drives or similar? Along the lines of these:

https://www.seagate.com/innovation/multi-actuator-hard-drive...

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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by antongribok on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:25PM (#31843642)

These are both Seagate Exos drives, one is a generation newer than the other. I'm pretty sure both have the same number of platters, thus same number of heads.

And yes, HP changes the firmware and model numbers... super annoying.

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