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If the performance difference significantly price per terabyte then I would certainly use these. As long as the actual sequential throughput isn't terrible they

If the performance difference significantly price per terabyte then I would certainly use these. As long as the actual sequential throughput isn't terrible they should be fine for media storage. That said Windows and Linux could certainly get some polish when it comes to accessing high latency storage. Opening a high-latency or even missing network share on Windows (still?) causes explorer.exe to hang. Linux might handle multi-second IO OK but I have had cases on extremely bad flash USB drives (hacked a bunch of write-once drives) where the IO is blocked for minutes after the write appears to have finished. In any case it would be really could to throw bcachefs on a HDD drive like this with a cache SSD.

wongarsu 5y ago
> Opening a high-latency or even missing network share on Windows (still?) causes explorer.exe to hang It's not like Windows doesn't have good APIs that allow you to do better. explorer.exe (or at least the file explorer part) is just an objectively bad product. It wasn't that long ago that it didn't allow you to create files starting with a dot, despite that being an entirely legal path name. And it still doesn't support long paths or alternate data streams, making it pretty easy for software to create files that you can't view in explorer. I'm kind of surprised that it doesn't seem to have any popular alternatives, considering how consistently bad it is (outside of small subsets, like compression or file copying)
- olyjohn 5y ago
  There used to be different windows "shells" that you could install and replace Explorer with. I would guess that these are "critical system files" now and Windows would not let you replace them like you could back in the day. Probably "security something blah blah..."
  - lloydatkinson 5y ago
    I believe you still can yes
- cryptonector 5y ago
  Yes, this is really surprising. You'd think this is a pain not just for users, but for users at Microsoft.

wongarsu 5y ago

> Opening a high-latency or even missing network share on Windows (still?) causes explorer.exe to hang It's not like Windows doesn't have good APIs that allow you to do better. explorer.exe (or at least the file explorer part) is just an objectively bad product. It wasn't that long ago that it didn't allow you to create files starting with a dot, despite that being an entirely legal path name. And it still doesn't support long paths or alternate data streams, making it pretty easy for software to create files that you can't view in explorer. I'm kind of surprised that it doesn't seem to have any popular alternatives, considering how consistently bad it is (outside of small subsets, like compression or file copying)

olyjohn 5y ago
There used to be different windows "shells" that you could install and replace Explorer with. I would guess that these are "critical system files" now and Windows would not let you replace them like you could back in the day. Probably "security something blah blah..."
- lloydatkinson 5y ago
  I believe you still can yes
cryptonector 5y ago
Yes, this is really surprising. You'd think this is a pain not just for users, but for users at Microsoft.