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Seagate is already field testing 10TB HDDs. I wish WD would hurry up and come out with a 6TB Black. The Greens and Reds are already available to consumers in 6TB.
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Western Digital’s HGST unit announced on September 9 that the company has
begun to ship a new version of its helium-filled disk drive, the Ultrastar He8—with
8-terabytes of data storage capacity. And the company has an even bigger
capacity drive waiting in the wings. That drive, which uses a new magnetic
recording technology, will have a capacity of 10 terabytes
Seagate is already field testing 10TB HDDs. I wish WD would hurry up and come out with a 6TB Black. The Greens and Reds are already available to consumers in 6TB.
The biggest drives I have right now are 2TB (Blacks and Greens). Even the Greens are plenty fast enough for writing and reading any data I throw at them. Specs for the 4TB Blacks and Greens are not much different from my 2TBs (the Greens are slow to initially spin up, however); I haven't compared the specs for the 6TB Greens yet and WD hasn't released any 6TB Blacks yet.
As boot drives, the bigger drives would be pathetically slow. That's one reason why I use SSDs for that.
I have two of the WD 4TB Mycloud drives, and I love them. I get transfer rates across our LAN of up to 80-90Mbps, which is plenty fast for me. That depends on which machine i am using though, but even slower speeds are 65+.
Just imagine what happens when someone buys one of those, puts their Life's Work on it, and then it crashes. Ouch.