• Ugurcan@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Oops, yes. I definitely would expect these to be much louder than your 6 GB 1998 model HDD wrangling under stress of copying files at 30 MB/s.

    • Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 days ago

      Tell that to my IBM 10GB 10.000 RPM U2W SCSI from back then. To this day I have never witnessed a noisier harddrive… But that PC was pretty epic, including the biggest mf of a mainboard I ever had (the SCSI controller was onboard).

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        14 days ago

        Ah, the sound of turning on the SCSI storage tower.

        KA-TSCHONK. WeeeeeeeeEEEEEIIIIIII… skrrrt, skrrrt, clack.

        Either that or KA-TSCHONK, silence, if there were already too many boxes on that circuit at a lan party 😁

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      14 days ago

      Your everyday modern HDD does not much more than 60MB/s after the on-disk cache (a few GB) is full.

      • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        not sure what you’re on about, i have some cheap 500GB USB 3 drives from like 2016 lying around and even those can happily deal with sustained writes over 130MB/s.

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          13 days ago

          When the cache isn’t full, yes, that’s true. Copy a file that’s significantly bigger than cache and performance will drop part way through.