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    Western Digital readies first 10TB Hard drive


    Posted: 10 Sep 2014

    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
    Source
    Dude's Avatar Posted By: Dude
    10 Sep 2014



  1. Posts : 9,600
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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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    I feel like these drives are going to be mad slow since they are so large in capacity.
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    andrew129260 said:
    I feel like these drives are going to be mad slow since they are so large in capacity.
    Based on the linked article, methinks you are correct. These enormous drives would probably be of more use for static data in large servers. My gut (keep in mind I'm overweight) says 4-6TB will be the upper practical limit for consumer drives for some time to come.
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    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    andrew129260 said:
    I feel like these drives are going to be mad slow since they are so large in capacity.
    Based on the linked article, methinks you are correct. These enormous drives would probably be of more use for static data in large servers. My gut (keep in mind I'm overweight) says 4-6TB will be the upper practical limit for consumer drives for some time to come.
    Yup, they will also make excellent backup drives though. Speed is not much of a concern there. Longevity is.

    It's funny. I remember old 80GB sata hdd always seem faster than 500GB disk etc. Bigger the storage, the slower it gets. At least with HDD. SSD changed all that.
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    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.
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    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+.
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    Just imagine what happens when someone buys one of those, puts their Life's Work on it, and then it crashes. Ouch.
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    OvenMaster said:
    Just imagine what happens when someone buys one of those, puts their Life's Work on it, and then it crashes. Ouch.
    One word: backups
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    andrew129260 said:
    Yup, they will also make excellent backup drives though. Speed is not much of a concern there. Longevity is.

    It's funny. I remember old 80GB sata hdd always seem faster than 500GB disk etc. Bigger the storage, the slower it gets. At least with HDD. SSD changed all that.
    The WD Green I bought in December appears to be ~5% faster, than the one I bought a couple of years ago (according to the specs).

    OvenMaster said:
    Just imagine what happens when someone buys one of those, puts their Life's Work on it, and then it crashes. Ouch.
    I have 5.5 TB in my PC and ~9 TB of external storage. :)
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