After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives
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After all this time, the company has added an additional terabyte to its external drives.
  • chiisana
    10•1 month ago

    Too bad it sounds like they’re SMR drives. Else it might be fun to shuck them for SFF servers.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 month ago

      Seagate had some 5tb smr drives that I started picking up a few years back. Write are slow at sustained 8-12MB/s. But reads are fine. I wouldn’t expect these new ones to be any better.

      Still not as good density wise in a 24 sff disk 2u server compared to a 12 disk lff 2u server with 18tb or 22tb disks.

    • Fuck spezEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      I doubt think these are even SATA, anyway. The last WD 2.5" external drive I opened up had its micro USB 3.x connector attached directly to the PCB, right where you’d expect an actual disk controller interface to be.