14 Sep
2020
14 Sep
'20
10:47 p.m.
Jason Schaefer writes:
I see that I blinked for a bit and disk drives went from 6 terabytes to 10 or 12 terabytes.
Yeah, its crazy how much storage capacity they have engineered onto a platter. It comes at a cost of reliability. I stopped trusting drives > 4TB. Regardless, you need RAID to justify storing anything of value on large disks. The only exception may be for backup storage.
If you use large disks for RAID, when a failure occurs, your rebuilds will take ages. Depending on your RAID the process of rebuilding will also seriously stress the remaining disks. A second disk failure at that point would be painful (to put it mildly). So I'm not sure I'd use such massive disks to construct an array either. -- Anthony J. Bentley