On Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:24:07 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Well I’m on ye Olde Continent and here I use a price search engine called
> geizhals (German for scrooge). But they have an English equivalent ;-) and
> of course use European pricing schemes (meaning including taxes, which you
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 10:24:07PM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
>> Am Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:32:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>>> Howdy all,
>>> […]
>>> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the
>>> rise, stable, dropping or what? Is
On 06/10/2021 21:20, Laurence Perkins wrote:
But currently the WD Purples and the Seagate Skyhawks should all be CMR.
Seagate have said the Iromwolf range will remain CMR. BarraCuda is now
all SMR (renamed from Barracuda, presumably to say it's still the budget
range, but the old drives are
Am Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 10:24:07PM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> Am Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:32:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > Howdy all,
> > […]
> > If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the
> > rise, stable, dropping or what? Is this a good time to expand while
Am Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:32:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Howdy all,
> […]
> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the
> rise, stable, dropping or what? Is this a good time to expand while it
> is more cost effective?
Well I’m on ye Olde Continent and here I use a
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 3:37 PM Laurence Perkins wrote:
> > I think what to look for there would be if there's a way to align the BTRFS
> > chunks to the SMR blocks.
>
> There are definitely ways to implement filesystems that are more compatible
> with SMR. You basically want something like
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 3:37 PM Laurence Perkins wrote:
> I think what to look for there would be if there's a way to align the BTRFS
> chunks to the SMR blocks.
There are definitely ways to implement filesystems that are more
compatible with SMR. You basically want something like a log-based
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 12:16 PM Laurence Perkins wrote:
> >
> > Other option, depending on exactly what your use case is would be to look
> > into your choice of filesystem. SMR doesn't like random writes into one of
> > its chunks unless it has enough idle time to go back and straighten it
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 12:16 PM Laurence Perkins wrote:
>
> Other option, depending on exactly what your use case is would be to look
> into your choice of filesystem. SMR doesn't like random writes into one of
> its chunks unless it has enough idle time to go back and straighten it out
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Dale
> Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:32 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future
>
>
> Howdy all,
>
> I still have quite a bit of drive storage but I
SMR drive prices are hopefully dropping. A couple of months ago I bought a
couple of used Hitachi 4 GB drives, for my raid setup. Being raid I got
recertified drives on ebay. They were about $65, up from about $50 for the
same drives a couple of years ago. Larger new drives are hopefully
Matt Connell wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 18:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on
>> the rise, stable, dropping or what?
> I can't speak to trends, but I've used this site in the past to keep an
> eye out for a deal when it comes up. It
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 18:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on
> the rise, stable, dropping or what?
I can't speak to trends, but I've used this site in the past to keep an
eye out for a deal when it comes up. It only indexes Amazon prices,
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:32 PM Dale wrote:
>> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the
>> rise, stable, dropping or what? Is this a good time to expand while it
>> is more cost effective? I shop around on ebay, Amazon and others before
>>
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:32 PM Dale wrote:
>
> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the
> rise, stable, dropping or what? Is this a good time to expand while it
> is more cost effective? I shop around on ebay, Amazon and others before
> buying. I'm not opposed
Howdy all,
I still have quite a bit of drive storage but I've read that prices on
drives are on the rise. Thing is, I don't track them much. I'm looking
at buying a 8TB drive and I've researched to make sure I'm getting a
PMR/CMR drive. I'm avoiding a SMR since it doesn't perform as well in
my
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