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A comment on Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Drives, 28TB SMR Ramping. Parent comment

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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