[ck2]

Now we know why the sub-$200 6TB drives keep going out of stock.

[brianwski]

Brian from Backblaze here. We can't find them either. We buy either 4 TB or 8 TB right now, and we're experimenting with 10 TB drives. We don't know why the 6 TB drives appeared and then disappeared...

[discodave]

Maybe you guys need to make friends in some of the S3/Glacier capacity teams ;)

[ck2]

Tigerdirect had them for $170 for a few days.

Note TDs are air-filled 7200rpm regular drives.

Are those 8TB and 10TB the helium ones with HAMR? Very slow.

[PhantomGremlin]

Are those 8TB and 10TB the helium ones with HAMR? Very slow.

My understanding of HAMR is that it is probably perfectly fine for Backblaze's backup products, which are (more or less) write-once, read-rarely. Shingled magnetic recording should also be OK for that use case.

But clearly not good for cloud storage.

[ck2]

Heat assisted is fine for write once but helium filled drives actually leak over time and fail because their molecules are so small.

[atYevP]

Yev at Backblaze here -> WHERE ARE YOU FINDING THEM? We want...a couple...