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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

HDD read rates are way faster than media playback rates, and seek times are just about irrelevant in that use case. Spinning rust is fine for media storage. It's boot drives, VM/container storage, etc, that you would want to have on an SSD instead of the big HDD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

And oftentimes some or all of the metadata that helps the filesystem find the files on the drive is stored in memory (zfs is famous for its automatic memory caching) so seek times are further irrelevant in the context of media playback