On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 02:05:33PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
300TB/year. That's a little bizarre: it's 9.51 MB/s. Modern high end spinners also claim 200MB/s or more when feeding them continuous writes. Apparently WD thinks that can't be sustained more than 5% of the time.
Which makes sense for most workloads. Very rarely do people write continuously to disks *and never keep the data there to read it later*. There are exceptions (mostly of the transaction log type for otherwise memory-resident data), and you can get write optimized storage, but you'll pay more. For most people that's a bad deal, because it would mean paying for a level of write endurance that they'll never use.