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https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000LM015/dp/B01LX13P71

 

I have a very dumb idea...

Get 3 of those and run them in RAID 0.

 

So, a 6TB gaming drive that is three times more likely to fail.

I mean, I COULD go with Firecudas in RAID, but not sure if the cache will cause issues.

Did I mention this was a dumb idea?

 

Also,

@seagate_surfer

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Well, that's incentive. ?

 

Seriously though, out of curiosity, you guys are the only ones that I know of that make high capacity 2.5 drives (up to 5 TB if I am correct, although past 2 TB they start getting very thick).

Why no Ironwolf drives in that form factor?  I would imagine that NAS drives with a smaller form factor would be rather desirable due to mini NAS boxes and simply maximizing the drive to space ratio.

Although, I have no clue how popular they would actually be, or if there is limitations with the technology that would make a 2.5 Ironwolf difficult.

 

Also, feel free to give input on my dumb RAID idea.

  1. TopHatProductions115

    TopHatProductions115

    Almost any other RAID number would be better XD try again...

  2. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @TopHatProductions115 Well, there should be no "R" in RAID 0.

    So, AID 0?

  3. seagate_surfer

    seagate_surfer

    Hello Cinnabar Sonar,

    It could be that the need of smaller hard drives is still not that high or not explored, smaller drives exist already in the form of SSD but that definitely can be asked, I will check to see if there is an specific reason and will let you know...

  4. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @seagate_surfer Thanks, i'm more curious than anything.  I'm not a hard drive company, so I have no idea how popular they will be, but 2.5 NAS drives is definitely something that I would be interested in, due to the popularity, and small footprint of small form factor cases, and the fact that 2.5 SSDs are impractical in a cost to GB situation.

     

    I'm still interested in RAIDing (RAID 0) three drives just to see the performance benefit, although nothing critical would be on them.

    Although, for long term, I would use something with a bit of redundancy, or at least have a way for Windows to combine the drives in a way where if one goes bad, I wouldn't loose all of my data.

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