Western Digital recently announced new data center HDDs that increase Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) capacity to 32TB and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity to 26TB. The company...
  • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    29 days ago

    Are they any louder than any HDD from the last 30 years?

    If so, im actually curious why that is

    Edit: fixed to say HDD not SSD

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      29 days ago

      Well I have no experience with these particular drives, but they do seem to have 11 platters. Which is beyond insane as far as I’m concerned. More platters means more moving parts, more friction more noise (all other things being equal).

    • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      29 days ago

      Oops, yes. I definitely would expect these to be much louder than your 6 GB 1998 model HDD wrangling under stress of copying files at 30 MB/s.

      • Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        28 days ago

        Tell that to my IBM 10GB 10.000 RPM U2W SCSI from back then. To this day I have never witnessed a noisier harddrive… But that PC was pretty epic, including the biggest mf of a mainboard I ever had (the SCSI controller was onboard).

        • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          28 days ago

          Ah, the sound of turning on the SCSI storage tower.

          KA-TSCHONK. WeeeeeeeeEEEEEIIIIIII… skrrrt, skrrrt, clack.

          Either that or KA-TSCHONK, silence, if there were already too many boxes on that circuit at a lan party 😁

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        Your everyday modern HDD does not much more than 60MB/s after the on-disk cache (a few GB) is full.

        • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          not sure what you’re on about, i have some cheap 500GB USB 3 drives from like 2016 lying around and even those can happily deal with sustained writes over 130MB/s.