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WD GOLD hard drives with 18 Terabyte Storage Volume start listing for 649 bucks
The race to 'as much storage volume as possible' on that mechanical HDD is just brutal, announced a while ago but now starting to list are 18 Terabyte HDDs from WD, the gold series in specific.
The 3.5-inch model WD181KRYZ is a unit to be found in the enterprise series WD Gold and seems to be priced in a 649 euros region. The spot of this HDD is interesting as WD does not even have a product page online just yet, but yeah it's already listed at etailers. In addition to the 18TB model, a 16TB model was released as well. The 18 TB version is listed as: 18TB GOLD 512 MB 3.5IN SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM
Before hitting that buy button, you might want to wait and see when the WD product page goes online, it is uncertain if the HDD will be CMR or SMR based.
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#5802447 Posted on: 06/23/2020 09:53 PM
I will wait 12 - 14 months so they get a few more firmwares out there to reduce the bugs and start swapping out my 16 drive storage array with these. My 120TB RAID 60 Array is about 80% full so it is almost time to add some more breathing room (up to 216TB).
I will wait 12 - 14 months so they get a few more firmwares out there to reduce the bugs and start swapping out my 16 drive storage array with these. My 120TB RAID 60 Array is about 80% full so it is almost time to add some more breathing room (up to 216TB).
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#5802552 Posted on: 06/24/2020 03:36 AM
It's all about how much space takes on a rack. The less the better (or the more you can fit in)
Price for storage doesn't even matter anymore, at least for corporations.
It's all about how much space takes on a rack. The less the better (or the more you can fit in)
Price for storage doesn't even matter anymore, at least for corporations.
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#5802631 Posted on: 06/24/2020 11:11 AM
For storage density, sure...
Also for corporations with deep pockets, sure...
But the price/capacity ratio is quite bad
- 8 TB drives can be found under $140, so 32+ TB for the price of a single 18 TB
- 14 TB drives can be found under $300, so 28 TB for less than this 18 TB
But new tech is cool, indeed !
It's for pro even if anyone can buy it, so you should think this way:
replace the 8 x 10TB in RAID by 8 x 18TB: yeah what a huge benefit of **TB (** depend on your RAID config)
And the financial service, start to talk to the boss about the need of this upgrade and how it will cost over 4 year
And the IT about the secure transfer of DATA and the benefit when done... lol
For storage density, sure...
Also for corporations with deep pockets, sure...
But the price/capacity ratio is quite bad
- 8 TB drives can be found under $140, so 32+ TB for the price of a single 18 TB
- 14 TB drives can be found under $300, so 28 TB for less than this 18 TB
But new tech is cool, indeed !
It's for pro even if anyone can buy it, so you should think this way:
replace the 8 x 10TB in RAID by 8 x 18TB: yeah what a huge benefit of **TB (** depend on your RAID config)
And the financial service, start to talk to the boss about the need of this upgrade and how it will cost over 4 year
And the IT about the secure transfer of DATA and the benefit when done... lol
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#5802633 Posted on: 06/24/2020 11:16 AM
Who pays 140$ for 8Tb? Thats how much I pay for 12Tb, usually even tad less
and 300$ for 14TB? Under 200$ max.
If it's in $ for Euro zone you have to add +25% of trump's tax +0,5% to 26% of local tax depending from the country
Who pays 140$ for 8Tb? Thats how much I pay for 12Tb, usually even tad less
and 300$ for 14TB? Under 200$ max.
If it's in $ for Euro zone you have to add +25% of trump's tax +0,5% to 26% of local tax depending from the country
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Who pays 140$ for 8Tb? Thats how much I pay for 12Tb, usually even tad less
and 300$ for 14TB? Under 200$ max.
so you buy externals and remove the casing?