Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor
Date	2021-08-03 23:30 +0200
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> One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes reports on
> harddisk reliability (they obviously have a lot of data on that :-)

All of them seem to be 3½" as well.
Interesting.

It actually looks like the 2½" HDD market has been abandoned: 5 years
ago, the largest HDD were 5TB for 2½" and 10TB for 3½".

Since then, it seems like nothing new happened in the 2½" space, whereas
the 3½" drives kept growing (tho only about 15% per year).

Based on what I've heard, I suspect that to be competitive in the
datacenter, 2½" drives would need to offer about half the capacity of
3½" drives (of course, that also presumes manufacturers going through
the trouble of producing CMR drives in 2½" form factor).

OTOH for an end user who doesn't need more than 8TB of disk space, 2½"
drives can often be a better option (assuming you have enough SATA
ports).


        Stefan

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ISO to external SSD Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-02 21:40 +0200
  Re: ISO to external SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-02 21:50 +0200
    Re: ISO to external SSD Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-03 14:20 +0200
      Re: ISO to external SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-03 17:10 +0200
        Re: ISO to external SSD Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-03 17:20 +0200
          Re: ISO to external SSD Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-03 17:30 +0200
            [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to  external SSD) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-03 19:40 +0200
              Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to  external SSD) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-03 20:00 +0200
              Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to          external SSD) Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-08-03 21:00 +0200
              Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to  external SSD) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-03 21:20 +0200
                Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-03 23:30 +0200
          Re: ISO to external SSD Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-03 18:30 +0200
      Re: ISO to external SSD Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-03 17:20 +0200
  Re: ISO to external SSD Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-02 23:40 +0200

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