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

Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by Hamuko on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:23PM (#38385327)

How long is it going to take to run a single pass of badblocks against a 24 or a 28 TB drive? Weeks?

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by creer on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:53PM (#38386330)

How useful is that these days? Serious question.

That used to be a good way to test a drive / burn in, but that hasn't been all that practical for a while.

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by Hamuko on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:11AM (#38390239)

I at least still run it on new drives to verify it wasn't bricked in shipping and to get any early breakdowns out of the way before I try to rebuild my RAID around it. But it is extremely fucking slow to run already on 12 TB drives.

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by mlyle on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:42PM (#38385554)

3-4 days.

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by Hamuko on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:16PM (#38385941)

I feel like 12 TB drives already take more than four days. Haven't done one in a while though.

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Re:Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Dri... by mlyle on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:02PM (#38386429)

12TB drives took me ~50 hours; linear extrapolation would say ~100 hours.

But the new drives have higher areal density and are a tad faster...

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