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For testing, we try to use free or easily available programs and some real world testing so you can compare our findings against your own system.
This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.
Main system:
Intel Core i7 4790K with 16GB of DDR3-2133 RAM, Sapphire R9 390 Nitro and an ASRock Extreme 6 motherboard.
Other drives
Seagate NAS 8TB
WD Red 8TB
Software:
Atto Disk Benchmark.
CrystalMark 3.0.3.
IOMeter
All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results.
Yet, compared to 2TB SSD, this is the cheaper alternative for 5x the storage. It’s not cheap, but it’s not too bad comperatively. I would love to see this drive for less than 200 euros. My current steam library is roughly 6TB +
You actually keep all your games of your steam library on your HDD? lol.
Yep, means, I don’t have to wait to download a game if I feel like playing it. The games I play most end up on my SSD for the time I use them then back to HDD. If something ever were to happen to steam for who knows what reason I could always crack my games.
You have a higher chance of losing your HDD than steam suddenly shutting down lol.
With a 180TB write endurance for 10 years? Seems kind of unlikely. Drives have a pretty long life expectancy specially if you use them more for storage rather than every day use.
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i got 8 of these into a NAS in RAID 6, 60TB of storage. this one NAS replaced 3 older units running 2TB and 3TB drives. the space and power savings alone are worth it!
I am only afraid of one thing … it is one word, really, that I am worried about. The word is SEAGATE.
I take care of over 30 classrooms full of pc’s with consumer hdd’s. By far the highest failure rates we have ever seen are Western Digital Green drives. There are no drives on the consumer market LESS reliable than Western Dodgy greens. Backblaze’s most recent data shows this to be true with a failure rate over 10%.
But the relevant fact is that the chance of steam suddenly shutting down *and* him losing his HDD at the same time is smaller than just the chance of the steam suddenly shutting down.
I hope they keep avoiding SMR wherever possible.