IOMeter is another open source synthetic benchmarking tool which is able to simulate the various loads placed on hard drive and solid state drive technology.
We test with both random read and write 4k tests, as shown above. There are many ways to measure the IOPS performance of a Solid State Drive, so our results will sometimes differ from manufacturer’s quoted ratings. We do test all drives in exactly the same way, so the results are directly comparable.
The Multi-Tier Caching technology in the 10TB IronWolf gives the drive the advantage when dealing with the small bity files of everyday use.
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.
I usually get paid in the span of 6-8 thousand dollars on monthly basis on the internet. For those of you who are prepared to finish simple computer-based task for 2-5 hrs daily from your home and make good benefit in the same time… Test this task UR1.CA/pm79t
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.