August 2, 201610 yr 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.
August 2, 201610 yr $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.
August 2, 201610 yr 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.
August 2, 201610 yr 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.
August 3, 201610 yr 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.
August 3, 201610 yr 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..
August 3, 201610 yr 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
August 3, 201610 yr 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.
August 3, 201610 yr I use the Drobo5N. Hot swappable, better protection than any single RAID level, mix and match drives.
August 3, 201610 yr 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.
August 5, 201610 yr 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.
August 15, 201610 yr 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/
August 15, 201610 yr just an old fashioned head - what application scenario we need a 10TB in one drive ? a huge database, a media library, a rendering farm . . .
August 15, 201610 yr 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 . . .
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