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To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
With only six discs to read and write to, the Seagate NAS 8TB is faster than its larger 10TB sibling with seven discs across all the real life tests.
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.