Western Digital & Seagate release helium 10TB HDD at consumer level pricing.  I am a professionally trained IT guy (software engineering) in late 90s, but these magnetic platter data densities blow my mind.

Way too big for my needs.  How much do they cost?

$590.

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=10+tb+internal+hard+drive&tag=googhydr-20&index=electronics&hvadid=86274688345&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11410066163356520480&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_45t73qcj49_b

Makes little sense when you can get an 8TB for $240.

The highest cap hhd's ssd, sd cards and so on are always much more expensive than the 2nd highest cap ones. 

I normally settle for the 2nd the 3rd highest cap ones.

20 minutes ago, Chicog said:

$590.

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=10+tb+internal+hard+drive&tag=googhydr-20&index=electronics&hvadid=86274688345&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11410066163356520480&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_45t73qcj49_b

Makes little sense when you can get an 8TB for $240.

There seems to be a current trend of external HDDs selling at a lower price than internal HDDs for the same capacity - which is strange when the cost of the casing should add to the external HDD price.

Last month I just ordered a Seagate 5TB external HDD for $120 from Amazon.  Arrived in 2 days - the benefit of the US supply chain system.

Today I see the same item is selling for $110.  That's less than 2.4 cents/GB, which must be the current Best Value.

Wait and see what is coming up in not son so long.

There will be flash memory to store in excess of those numbers, thanks to quantum computing.

maybe the old way of looking at things but that is a lot of data to lose if the HDD fails...

 

OK in more resent years have upgraded both my mind set and HDD and know have 4x 1TB HDD's 

even so 2x 1TB HDD's have failed both replaced FREE as still within guarantee.. 

24 minutes ago, ignis said:

maybe the old way of looking at things but that is a lot of data to lose if the HDD fails...

 

 

Bit like putting all the eggs in one basket

2 hours ago, Rob13 said:

 

Bit like putting all the eggs in one basket

Yep, if you're going to get one, you might as well get two of them.

 

That is a lot of data to lose unless you have it backed up somewhere.

I use the Drobo5N.  Hot swappable, better protection than any single RAID level, mix and match drives.
 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Chicog said:

I use the Drobo5N.  Hot swappable, better protection than any single RAID level, mix and match drives.

 

Better than any single RAID??

 

What I see is this more or less a normal RAID 5 or 6, depending on your configuration. And the BeyondRaid, is nothing more than a layer over the Raid for easier migration of different disks... Similar to the Hybrid Raid from Synology.

 

But yes and easy and cheap Raid solution. And more easy than most NAS to handle.

SSD sizes are starting to get larger than HDD's. 

 

Samsung 15TB SSD with a price tag of USD10.000.

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-samsungs-15tb-pm1633a-ssd-now-available-purchase-us10000

 

I'll hope that in the next few years, the SSD prices are going to be less than HDD prices per TB. It should happen as the manufacturing numbers keep on growing. 

 

 

Samsung is now talking about 2.5" SSD with 32TB capacity. They are aiming to have 100TB drives in 2020.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-crams-32tb-ssd-into-a-2-5-inch-drive-aims-for-100tb-by-2020/

 

Meanwhile Seagate comes with 3.5" / 60TB disk. 
http://www.zdnet.com/article/worlds-largest-ssd-revealed-as-seagate-unveils-60tb-monster/

 

just an old fashioned head - what application scenario we need a 10TB in one drive ?  a huge database, a media library, a rendering farm . . .

lots and lots of UHD porn!

3 hours ago, ETatBKK said:

just an old fashioned head - what application scenario we need a 10TB in one drive ?  a huge database, a media library, a rendering farm . . .