Enterprise drive + 10Tb capacity = huge price, I presume.

Those speeds look impressive for Hdd

Wel the 8gb UltraStar He8 was released at a much higher price initially but is about $450 now. http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Western-Digital-Company-0F23267/dp/B00NP6AOCK Would think the HE10 may go for $600 or thereabouts.

256mb/sec nice for mechanical, that is about as fast as my SSD running in SATA II well in sequential reads,

"...creating an innovation inflection point in the world of IoT." Good gawd I am so glad I am out of the rat race. 🙂 In other news, while a point change here, I still see the not too distant future as moving away from mechanical. The access time and throughput is just too slow.

256mb/sec nice for mechanical, that is about as fast as my SSD running in SATA II well in sequential reads,

PCIe SSD drives are already exceeding 3000MB/sec.

Best thing about this drive (aside from speed) is that it reduces HD and cable clutter: 1 drive instead of 3 or 4.

Best thing about this drive (aside from speed) is that it reduces HD and cable clutter: 1 drive instead of 3 or 4.

One drive to rule them all. One drive to bind your system. One drive to fail miserably and lose all your data all at once.

One drive to rule them all. One drive to bind your system. One drive to fail miserably and lose all your data all at once.

do you have another suggestion that doesnt cost $1000/unit, doesnt suffer from performance loss and has the storage space for real data storage. I realize this is targeted, at Commercial/Enterprise applications. but 10TB in reality is not a massive amount of space. for pure storage i have 9tb raid-5 array (6x WD3003FZEX) and from projects to video encoding ive used up 85% of that space. so 1 more tb, for space alone. is not worth it.

do you have another suggestion that doesnt cost $1000/unit, doesnt suffer from performance loss and has the storage space for real data storage. I realize this is targeted, at Commercial/Enterprise applications. but 10TB in reality is not a massive amount of space. for pure storage i have 9tb raid-5 array (6x WD3003FZEX) and from projects to video encoding ive used up 85% of that space. so 1 more tb, for space alone. is not worth it.

I'm not sure what you're asking. You're asking if i have a suggestion for real data storage as if this is? It's not, so i'm confused? If 10TB was enough for "real data storage", this drive could be useful. But not by itself, only if you have 3 or more drives, as otherwise it's not "real data storage". You can't have "real data storage" with no redundancy, which in what i replied to in the beginning was my point. That replacing many drives with one drive just because it's a lot of storage only means you give it once chance that if it fails you lose everything. So in the end i guess i'm confused by your post and question?