Yeah, I agree. Unless it was for video editing temporary disk space. Or a setup like Backblaze's storage pods where data is redundantly stored across multiple unique machines.
I wonder what the rebuild time is if you set up an array like seven 10TB in mdadm RAID6 and an eighth drive as hot-spare. 18 hours? On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be terrified to run anything but raid10 on those. > On Apr 3, 2016 9:30 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As compared to the 6TB price which is about 4.3 cents per GB: >> >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145973&cm_re=6TB_HGST-_-22-145-973-_-Product >> >> >> 10TB: >> http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/20160401_751351.html >> >> It's about 7 cents per GB... Price is high so far, but if you need a >> huge amount of storage in a small space (like a 1U server with 4 x 10TB + 1 >> boot SSD on motherboard), can be worth it. >> >
