This is pretty good news for those of who like to keep local collections of media.
In many ways, you can think of a datacenter’s use of hard drives as the ultimate test for a hard drive—you’re keeping a hard drive on and spinning for the max amount of hours, and often the amount of times you read/write files is well over what you’d ever see as a consumer. Industry trend-wise, drives are getting bigger, which means that oftentimes, folks are buying fewer of them. Reporting on how these drives perform in a data center environment, then, can give you more confidence that whatever drive you’re buying is a good investment.
Depends on the consumer. My x2 HDDs (7.27 TB total) have seen at least ~765 TB in reads and ~60 TB in writes since Dec 2021. True number is likely somewhat higher, especially for writes.
Depends on the consumer. My x2 HDDs (7.27 TB total) have seen at least ~765 TB in reads and ~60 TB in writes since Dec 2021
Enterprise drives can see some data get hit so hard that they have to limit how many deduplicated copies of data can use the same blocks.
Most enterprise arrays will crawl the entire system constantly as a background process to correct for things like bit flip errors.
