Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Drives, 28TB SMR Ramping

Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by yieldcrv on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:22PM (#38385314)

> The latest Ultrastar HDDs are generally being aimed at cloud service providers, hyperscalers, and large enterprises, whereas WD Gold are going primarily to VARs, enterprises, enterprise-grade NAS, and small businesses that need to store loads of data.

Are there any enthusiasts here that use this much space for any reason, for what? At this point if I had a reason, I would probably still build an NVMe array at great expense

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by Havoc on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:38PM (#38387531)

Usually the answer is large catalogs of high definition series and movies.

Tools exist to automate this so not hard to accumulate TBs

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by mlyle on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:40PM (#38385533)

> Are there any enthusiasts here that use this much space for any reason, for what?

Right now my NAS is 2x12TB disks in RAID-1. It's full and I'm constantly under space pressure; primary usage is the on-site backups for 3 kid computers + 2 computers each for my wife and me.

I separately have about 5TB of virtual machines, plus a few other terabytes of miscellaneous data.

Consolidating most of this with enough headroom that I don't need to worry about storage too much is appealing. Currently thinking tiered storage, with 3x24TB drives in a RAID-10 for 36TB of capacity plus a mirror of 2x2TB SSD in front of it (so ~3% cached plus really good write performance) is appealing.

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by kennethrc on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:54PM (#38385684)

I've got 4x18T of RAID5 (~52-odd TB) and hoping there's an upcoming BF sale on 20+T drives (the sweet spot being < $15/TB) as I'm running out of room.

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by yieldcrv on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:57PM (#38385719)

storing what?

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by nottorp on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:22AM (#38391625)

If you're consultant ish and keep all your old projects, maybe. Personaly I don't have 24 Tb of archives but I have old VMs worth like 5 Tb. I don't need them on NVMe, if i need to ressurect one I'll copy it to fast storage.

Media libraries are the obvious use case though. If you're into that.

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