12 TB WD Red and Red pro pops up at web shops
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Clawedge
really interested in platter density. cant seem to find any info on that
Astyanax
Clawedge
i doubt WD will waste 25% of the platter space. Never heard them short stroking in the consumer space.
But it could be the case, never know. Hdd density increase has slowed to a crawl
Astyanax
It's long been done in enterprise models for performance reasons.
For instance, many 1TB drives were 3x500GB platters shortstroked to 333 instead of 2x500GB, these were often platters that didn't make the grade to be used in single platter 500GB drives (not that there were many)
https://rml527.blogspot.com/2010/09/hdd-platter-database-hitachi-25.html
Um?
1. It's not a waste. They are repurposing platters that didn't make the grade for 16TB
2. All drive manufacturers use shortstroking in this manner and always have done.
3. Clawedge
Oh nice, thanks for the link and info.appreciate it
sdamaged99
I don't know why WD are so far behind. Seagate are moving on to 16TB, and WD have only just gotten 12TB Reds. I mean come on WD!
schmidtbag
Yakk
Seagate NAS grade SSD is an interesting item. I was surprised they actually tweaked them quite a bit for storage/cache use, not really geared for desktop use. Looks like Seagate in putting quite a bit of money into solid state R&D.
Don't know why WD is so far behind, last wave of HD purchases were Seagate for me for the first time in 20+ years. Phasing out WD, will see how it goes.
Clawedge
There is a good chance this is shingled magnetic. So performance will be average
Mundosold
Is there any reason hard drive manufacturers don't go back to 5.25" form factor and make drives with giant platters? That is like triple the area over 3.5" platter isn't it?
Astyanax
costs more.
sdamaged99
schmidtbag
Clawedge
@LIGuitar77 I do believe @sdamaged99 was referring to his 4k p0rn collection.
schmidtbag
sdamaged99