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These are supposed to go on sale next year. I can't wait to see what it does to prices of current SSD's.

This was part of my thought. I'll not be buying a 100tb SSD in the next 2 years I imagine. But if they are available, buying a 4tb SSD might be within my price range.

Im currently using about 3tb of HDDs and looking to expand. HDD seems obsolete (for buying something Im trying to future proof with, also, drive spinning accounts for a large portion of noise in my computer) and SSD prices arent there yet. Hopefully these insanely huge advances push the lower end up.

A little unsolicited advice, but try putting some small gaskets between the screw and harddrive, it eliminates a lot of noise.

I just got a new case, ironically my old case was near silent ( i could hear the physical whirring of the disks and that's about it).

My new one has the little rubber gaskets on the mounting screws, but the drive is mounted against a mounting sleeve (?) sort of thing. I pull a little adapter out of the HDD cage, mount the drive into that (with the rubber gaskets) and then put the adapter back into the cage. I think the noise is the adapter on cage rattle.

It doesnt happen that often (so i think it is only 1 drive doing it), so I havent bothered to look into it. But with moving parts youll always have SOME noise.

Ah, I've got the same kinda thing, the carts on my case have rubber bumpers that separate it from the rest of the case. Maybe get some of the rubber furniture nibs and see if you can stick em in there between the cage and case.

Vibration also kills spinning disk prematurely; I believe one of Backblaze's earliest blog posts mentions this.

Of course it makes for an interesting business model to mount a pair of 100TB drives as a mirror pair for torrents. Of course you won't know how reliable they are so every month you will want to replace one of the mirrored drives and recycle it through your wholly owned subsidiary "Drive-full-of-torrents.com" :-)

I actually have a 3TB MyBook for personal media as well and it's dangerously close to being full. :) Currently I'm considering a 6TB version of the same thing as I'm sure these larger SSD's won't become affordable for another 2-4 years.

> But if they are available, buying a 4tb SSD might be within my price range.

Those are $1499 retail.

Oh I know. right now. Hoping that high density storage would drive down the price on the new "bottom" end.

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