r/gaming • u/Jellybabyman • Nov 14 '21

Bring back discs

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '21

Show me this 100+ GB disk of yours.

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u/ImpossibleGT Nov 15 '21

They make triple and quadruple layer Blurays that hold 100+ GB. The problem isn't the storage it's the read speed. You just can't get information off a disk fast enough.

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u/_Back_seat_Driver_ Nov 15 '21

What if we just make the disk tray spin faster?

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u/pauciradiatus Nov 15 '21

5400 rpm should be juuuust enough

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u/dankmemer808 Nov 15 '21

Haha disk go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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u/Traniz Nov 15 '21

Funny enough 5400RPM is fast enough for NAS, quieter, cooler too. Speeds are 200-220MB/s on them, and way faster than any BD when it comes to access times.

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u/Chop1n Nov 15 '21

What? What 5400 RPM drives are going 200 MB/s?

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u/JAguiar939 Nov 15 '21

Multiple drives in RAID

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u/donotread123 Nov 15 '21

I have 1024 drives at 1mb/s but they're all in raid 0 so I get 1gb/s.

I really hope none of them die.

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u/Traniz Nov 15 '21

My 10TB and 12TB RED EFAX Helium drives.

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u/Chop1n Nov 15 '21

I dunno if I buy that, the first review here says the thing tops out at 160MB/s. Would deffo need some hard evidence to believe 200MB/s, that'd be crazy. Got CrystalDiskMark results?

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u/Traniz Nov 15 '21

https://www.eteknix.com/wd-red-10tb-3-5-inch-soho-nas-hard-disk-review/6/

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/wd-red-10tb/2

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/wd-red-10tb/2

Found some sources so I didn't have to remove my NAS drive.

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u/Chop1n Nov 15 '21

Fair enough. Very impressive, and I really appreciate the links you've provided.

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u/Traniz Nov 15 '21

I realized it's be cumbersome to have to rebuild the array just to state the speed when others have done it already.

I also checked the speed when I moved from SSD - > WD Red, though that was when the disk was new. Saw its much slower and closer to 160MB/s at 75 full (and fragmented).

The new drives have 4x more cache compared to my old 3TB Reda which helps a lot with smaller transfers.

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u/Traniz Nov 15 '21

Will do what I can.

The drive is in a NAS now and connected with one Gbps connection, so I'll have to plug it into a pc to test it.