Blackblaze released their annual report the other day. The 8TB HGST seem to have great MTBF - I was surprised. (45 x 8TB per chassis, +2 raid1 OS SSDs I believe) = 360TB
Sexy stuff. On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote: > Large scale backup storage? > > I can build a server with 40 * 8TB 3.5" HGST spinning 7200 rpm drives, > divided up into several Linux mdadm RAID6 arrays with hotspares, for > considerably less money than the same capacity built out of 1TB 2.5" SSDs. > > There is now a Samsung 15TB SSD that costs ten thousand dollars... > http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/8/1/12342696/samsung-pm1633a-ssd-15tb-storage-drive-specs-price > > > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there a good reason to continue to use rotating media going forward? > >
