![]() ![]() Like its great we have these massive disks, but I cant even imagine how long it will take to resliver (rebuild) a RAID volume with a MegaRAID Controller or with ZFS unless these disks also had improved read/write performance that was proportional to the increase in size. do they have faster read/write speeds then say a 6TB? like If I needed to move a 60GB ESXi VM from an iSCSI datastore that was originally on a RAIDZ1 pool that consisted of 3圆TB 7200 RPM SATA drives (shucked of course) to a RAIDZ1 pool that consisted of 3x14TB 7200 RPM SATA drives, Would the read write to the 3x 14TB drives be higher then if it were going to the 3圆TB drive pool? Hopefully that made sense. I have no problem shucking drives to save some money as I did that when I first built my NAS using 6TB seagate disks and saved almost the cost of a full disk.so basically my parity disk was free! hahaġ4TB seems insane. Im in Canada so there's a currency adjustment involved that makes our prices appear to be a big higher but they 're pretty much on par. Mind elaborating a bit on what u said about Chia changes the math? What is Chia? And where do u see a 14TB HDD that is only $230? I havent seen anything that big for that price. Hopefully this is helpful or not-unhelpful! I've never found a cloud storage that really compared well, financially, to just buying more external hard disks, but, when you pay for a cloud service you are getting some convenience that you might not be getting out of EasyStores and MyBooks, so while you can get anecdata and calculations it's up to you to decide what technology solution or solutions best meet your need. ![]() Granted - Chia changes the math on this a little bit and you'll need to decide whether a 14TB EasyStore at $420 is worth it the same way it was at $230. Do you have 10TB of data you need to have everywhere or do you may have an icloud/onedrive/google-one amount of data you need everywhere and maybe some easystores would be fine for your bulk archival/hoarding need. So, the question I'd ask before you put a whole bunch of data up in this service is what you really need. IME desktop sized USB external disks last about a decade these days. (And, arguably, you want that - unprofitable cloud services shut down abruptly causing data loss.)īefore around March you could get a 14TB WD easystore for around $230 and if you have any faith whatsoever that that drive will last 2.5 years you've already broken even, in terms of raw capacity. Probably less than I want to think because the machines still require staff hours and electricity but. At that price, they're making a relatively tidy profit. These prices are a loss leader to get you and your data into the ecosystem so that you don't have much choice but to stay when the price goes up.ġ0TB appears to have a normal price of around $100-year. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '” We are not your personal archival army.No unapproved sale threads, advertisement posts, or giveaways.No memes or 'look at this old storage medium/ connection speed/purchase' (except on Free Post Fridays). ![]()
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