Reply to post: Why not bigger drives

Hold on a sec. When did HDDs get SSD-style workload rate limits?

Duncan Macdonald

Why not bigger drives

For the large capacity lower performance market (array sizes in multiple petabytes) why do drives have to be limited to 3.5 or 2.5 inch sizes? Using the larger 5 1/4 inch size would allow far more data to be stored per drive.

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