Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)
https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/
#HackerNews #harddisk #microbenchmarking #technology #dataanalysis #storage
Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)
https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/
#HackerNews #harddisk #microbenchmarking #technology #dataanalysis #storage
cleaning up a cupboard, I found this. I wonder if it's still good.
I wonder, what the highest density #harddisk or any other storage media that one can reasonable #diy is these days?
(Not counting data compression, just the raw uncompressed amount of data you could store on any storage media you built yourself).
Cassette tapes would probably be the easiest as that has already been used once in the past. But there for sure must be other/better/different options with todays "diy-level tools and capabilities", right?
It occurred to me that I've had a #harddisk fail on me and lose data in like 2001 and vowed to only use #raid ever since.
And I have, my primary laptop has 4 #nvme drives in raid10, my thin and light has 2 in raid 1, my desktop 4 in raid 10 also.
It also occurred to me that even since the first sata ssd I've used I've never not even once had an #ssd fail without warning, ever.
I'm probably gonna keep using raid but I'm beginning to think maybe it's not really necessary any more...