Comments on: Our 6TB Hard Drive Face-Off https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: David https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-300421 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:50:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-300421 In reply to bbgooble.

You can increase the amount of threads a backup process uses — I’ve increased it to 10 & was uploading @ 300+ Mbps. Backblaze wasn’t the choke point in my case.

]]> By: mayhempk1 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-296241 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:54:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-296241 In reply to Multimediavt.

I know this is a late reply, but there’s a LOT more to hard drives than just their RPM and cache. RPM is mainly for random I/O, whereas density can vary a lot between two brands of drives.

]]> By: Rick Peralta https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-282881 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:08:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-282881 > Backblaze currently receives 130 TB of data from our customers to store
each day… there are 20-40 Storage Pods

WOW! That is about 1.5 Gbps or 100 Mbps per pod.

Sort of shifts the notion of performance!

Do you publish peak I/O numbers to the pods?

]]> By: stretch.kerr https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-281601 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:14:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-281601 In reply to loopyduck.

Thermite is underwhelming, actually. They look cool, but didn’t melt the platters as expected. If you have the time, dismantle the drives, THEN thermite the platters. If you thermite the whole drive, a lot of the thermite is used getting through the shell, and/or the PCB, depending on what way up the drive is when you pull the pin on the thermite. https://plus.google.com/photos/110686910997756003632/albums/5636795932587529697?authkey=CNjg8ZbrnsXV-QE

]]> By: Jon https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-278501 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 03:26:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-278501 Very informative. Nothing short of excellent!

]]> By: loopyduck https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-278161 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 03:19:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-278161 In reply to Jesper Monsted.

Let’s just skip ahead to thermite.

]]> By: Jesper Monsted https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-277871 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:09:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-277871 In reply to Multimediavt.

I’ve been eyeing an electric wood cleaver to permanently destroy the platters.

]]> By: Mathew Bush https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-275291 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 10:30:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-275291 A very comprehensive comparison between Western Digital and
Seagate 6 TB hard drives (hårddiskar) you’ve made! It would help businesses in
making their hard drive purchasing decisions. With the price decreasing, it is
certainly good news for all! Thanks Andy!

]]> By: Jon https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/#comment-275251 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:27:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=19271#comment-275251 Thanks for sharing this data.

I’m looking forward to hearing about the Seagate Archive HDD 8TB. They look tempting for my needs, but wondering where the weak points really are. I’d prefer a 8TB WD Red, but I’m not that brand loyal when it comes down to it.

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