Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar & Gold Hard Drives, 28TB SMR Drives Ramping
So, only Gold series is to be available in stores, which means just 24 TB CMR drive.
All drives are getting out in SATA version first, SAS is to follow later.
What is real technical difference between Gold and “Ultrastar” lines anyway ? 🙄
It doesn’t look like they announced pricing
I will never but a Western Digital product again after the way they’ve misleadingly marketed SMR drives in the past and gaslighted users about their performance.
This ^
Also because it seems that all the WD blues I’ve ever bought have died xd
Seagate has 32TB HAMR coming out in the next ~7 months
SMR should die.
Bad take. Everything has a use case. SMR is great as a cold storage medium
I can’t imagine how many years it would take to resilver that drive.
Depends on your use case. If you can get 15% more storage for the same cost it could be worth it to data hoarders for no measurable performance issues.