Seagate preps 5TB and 6TB Enterprise-Class Hard Disk Drives
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JonasBeckman
A 6tb HDD would be a nice storage unit, of course on the other hand it would probably also drastically increase the chances of it being the first HDD that breaks for me. :P
(I forgot exactly what it was called, if it can go wrong it will go wrong, something like that.)
Solfaur
Nice, just when my porn collection was running out of space. I will get 2, one for backup. :eyebrows:
Pill Monster
5900rpm....they must be some really dense platters.
NeoElNino
Im OK with my 2x 3TB Seagate SATA3 7200RPM HDDs for now. Just crossing fingers they wont fail on me anytime soon ..
Corrupt^
Got the Seagate 4TB HDD some time ago and yeah, even at 5900rpm the 4TB drive reaches nice speeds for a conventional drive.
Koniakki
Well I have left 1TB, maybe even 1,3-1,5TB if I do some cleaning out of my 9.5TB.
I was thinking of getting another 4TB for some time but tbh I was waiting for larger ones like 5TB. But 6TB? Sweet!
I think I can wait a bit longer and see when mainstream 5-6TB HDD's will become available.
Pill Monster
Hmmm OK, looked at some benchies and it is quite a bit slower than the 7200 models, but a 4TB drive is built for storage capacity and not performance anyway...... 🤓 I'm kinda surprised you went with 4TB actually vs a couple of smaller drives. Are you running out of SATA ports? lol
I'll prob go for 1TB or 2TB next but can't decide between WD or Seagate tho.... In the past I always stick with Seagate but the 1yr warranty puts me off a bit.
🤓
Corrupt^
Not saying it's the best, but it does perform better then a regular 5900 rpm disk. Write speeds (when I write a file of a few GB to the disk) are about 120 to 130'ish MB/sec.
Using an external casing for the HDD with eSata to stash my backups on it (got 2 like these, the other one is 1.5TB, will eventually be upgraded to 4TB or more as well). When I have more cash to spare I'll probably get a proper NAS.
Right now this is my el cheapo backup solution 🤓
Norvekh
Good thing I didn't buy two 4TB drives then. I decided to get just one and buy another later this year or early next. Picking up a 5 or 6TB drive instead would be great.
Corrupt^
Was thinking the same thing "By the time I'll need the 2nd one hopefully they'll have even bigger disks..."
Guess we were right 😛
scoter man1
Moore's law - if it can go wrong it will go wrong
I can't tell if this would be better or worse. Where I work we just test backup servers and things like that. I think if we had a 6TB hard drive go the server guy might blow an O ring.
kosh_neranek
My 3x2TB Seagate drives are jealous and hiding in the corner after reading this article 🙂
Pill Monster
Murphy's law. lol
Moores Law relates to CPU power and number of transistors doubling every two years.... 🤓
Neo Cyrus
The internal 4TB Segate is the ST4000DM000, I guess they stopped giving them names. Anyway, that model supposedly is almost as fast as the far more expensive 7200RPM 4TB WD Caviar Black. I have the same one, if it dies... man I'll lose a lot of data. If it weren't for the flooding/artificial prices I would have bought two and used RAID 1.
Murphy's law. Moore's is that the transistor count on an IC doubles every 2 years. But considering we're talking about technology it's easy to get the two mixed up. :wanker:
scoter man1
Close enough. 🤓 I knew it was a M
scoutingwraith
See i am like "scooter man1". I know my luck and with that 6TB it will be having a hard time restoring it or backing up when it decides to die on me. lol. Hence i will be sticking to 1TB and 2TB storage for now. Ive noticed that even the 2TB drives seem to have higher failure rates than 1TB as well. (based on online reviews though)
Pill Monster
They do but still less than WD.
macdaddy
6 TB drives will do it for my Dual bay NAS. Hold on Damn support Max 4tb drives .....
WindtalkerCS
I hope you guys know that this article is about enterprise drives. These will probably be in the $500-600 range.
Corrupt^
Well to be on the safe side I did test my HDD for any faults before moving any data to it (just to make sure it didn't have any factory made errors). Better safe then sorry these days.
