5TB HDDs in the pipeline
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PhazeDelta1
Bring on those WD Reds. I could use a few more.
BLEH!
Hello 25 TB RAID 5 array 😀
John
Good, that should make 4TB prices drop. My file server needs more space. Now.
dk_lightning
Ive got a 1TB in my PC and a 1TB in my server and ive still got 1TB between them to spare!
5TB drive would last me.. well forever!
Neo Cyrus
I'm pretty surprised that I managed to make it through most of the artificial price inflation with just 1 spare 2TB drive (on top of what I had before). I thought I'd run out of space for sure and have to end up paying a ridiculous 2-3x an HDDs previous cost when at the moment there was no shortage. I still have a few hundred gigs to spare so I'll be waiting for prices to go down again before I buy anything.
Last I checked prices were still towards double normal, they only went down to normal on Black Friday, and I had no car at the time so I couldn't even pick up anything (no I'm not about to spend 4 hours waiting and on buses for a trip that's about 50 minutes by car).
TheDeeGee
I feel like getting a 2,5 Inch Drive for my PC instead. They are so freakin quiet.
BLEH!
How much storage you got in that thing?
TirolokoRD
4tb drop?, I have only saw hitachi models around, any others?
John
Err.. About 17TB unformatted. 2TB free now, so will have to do something about it over the holidays. Problem is I'm out of SATA ports again, so I'll have to get another controller too.
WD has 4TB models as well, just not GP drives (Black and RE).
PhazeDelta1
Damn. And here I thought I had alot of storage space. 🤓
I have 10TB so far and it slowing keeps adding up month after month.
TirolokoRD
17TB????, ohhh comeeee onnn 😱, tell me the % of prom you have there:banana:
Year
as soon as the 5tb are out, i'm going to buy 2, i need (and prefer) 2 big drives rather than 4 smaller ones, money no object.
;)
John
0%, actually. 😉
100% film and TV. Nothing else.
Mufflore
Ebuyer has an external 4TB Hitachi on USB 3 for only £130 !!
http://www.ebuyer.com/339426-hitachi-4tb-touro-dx3-desktop-hard-drive-0s03400
I dont get it, USB 3 external drives have no price premium over bare drives.
dk_lightning
I noticed this as well.
I grabbed me a 1TB Buffalo external from Tesco about 2 months ago for £55 (Has a WD Green drive in it)
At the time a 1TB internal drive was around £80
John
USB 2.0 drives even used to be cheaper than bare SATA drives. I bought a bunch I pried open and took the drives out of. I now have a lot of SATA -> USB 2.0 converters and AC adapters left over from this.
TirolokoRD
Damm, nice one...I am starting to do my own blu ray rips to my PC. Would love to see your set up.
Ryu5uzaku
17TB O.o i got only 8 :< goddamn. need to buy more space tho running out fast... got some 500gb free.
John
It's really nothing too fancy or complicated. Mostly older hardware (Core 2, P35 chipset etc), an extra controller, an old, huge huge slightly modified maxi-tower from way back with room for boatloads of drives. Running Windows Home Server 2011 and FlexRaid software raid (Raid-Z, 3TB parity and storage pooling). Streams to my Popcorn Hour media player in the living room with a full graphical library system (ala XBMC). It's positioned in a storage room in my apartment and I control it with Radmin. I easily get over 100 megabytes a sec over Gb Lan with this. A cheaper and much more flexible alternative to a NAS.
Easy peasy. Put that old hardware to use!
A pic of the thing can be seen here: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj28/Adrgha/CIMG5809.jpg
It ain't pretty, but I never see it anyway.
TheSarge
Great. I need more storage space for my porn collection. :banana:
