Reply to post: Re: S.M.A.R.T. provides this data, you had to know they'd use it

Re: S.M.A.R.T. provides this data, you had to know they'd use it

> "Remember, they don't need to equip PCs with 4 TB drives"

Whilst it's a niche thing, some of us need bulk local storage. Modern high-quality digital stills cameras are capable of generating 70MB image files with a framerate of 5fps (sometimes this is needed - moving subject, etc), which chews through space like no tomorrow (it's entirely possible to burn through 10-20GB in a day's shooting). Whilst their sequential data rate is fine, HDDs with lower rotational rates tend to have noticably higher latency, which can be a pain if you're batch-processing 200+ images. Sometimes a NAS isn't appropriate (e.g. space issues), and nor is cloud storage (e.g. limited upstream rate).

I don't want to think what 4K video is like on storage ...