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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! (www.techradar.com)
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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Many people can't accept that one drive model isn't going to kill a company or make everything from them bad.

The exception being the palladium drive. Although its not directly attributed to the fall of JTS, who at the time owned Atari. Its was clear from the frontline techs these things were absolute shit. The irony is that 1 out of say 10,000 was perfect. So much so I still have one of the 1.2 gig's that still spins up and reads and writes fine. Its nearly a unicorn though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5JTwpv5go

[–] digilec@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had one of these, it worked perfectly for years. I might even still have it. I remember it being a significant leap in size and cost per MB.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We had failure rates over 90% on them. We sold around 8000 computers on contract to the local schools that year and took a hit to our rep. We started going from school to school replacing them before they could fail.

The drive in the picture is dated mar 16 97. I'm pretty sure it was one of thousands of warranty replacements we received. Like I said its still good but really hasn't been in service in over 30 years. I keep it because its a reminder of how bad, bad can be.

JT storage went out of business in 98. When we heard they had no one was surprised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_Storage

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

That is an absolutely wild fail rate.