Seagate to release 2TB SSHD and 5TB HDD in 2.5" form-factor
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cryohellinc
This is very interesting tech! If the price will be reasonable, defo on my Want list. 🙂
RealNC
It's Seagate, so I'll pass. I don't want crap that breaks after 3 years of use.
CK the Greek
RealNC
Ridiric
Pictus
I do not care much about the brand, but the model...
My main guide is the Backblaze reports
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
Loophole35
I wonder if the PS4 supports the 5GB capacity? It should support 2GB.
holystarlight
abula
Aura89
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/188617279381045248/236176705801158658/unknown.png
I'd go with a HGST drive pretty much any day of the year, based off of past experiences with Hitachi drives, and current experiences with HGST drives
Your personal experiences don't matter when it comes to reality. Now, If you saw the image above you'd see seagate has improve immensely this year, which is great. However, you keep saying that it doesn't matter what drive you get because it might die or it might not. Ofcourse, yes, this is possible, but it's the likelihood of dying that is the problem. I'm glad that all your recent drives are working out great, you aren't part of the percent of drives failing within each manufacturer, which is great, for you.
If i have 4 drives with a failrate of 50%, yet all 4 work for years, yet i have 4 drives of a failrate of 10%, and 3 drives of the 4 fail, does that somehow mean that the 2nd drives are worse then the first? No, it means i got lucky with the 1st, and unlucky with the 2nd, but i'd buy the drive that has a failrate of 10% over 50% any day of the week, as i am more LIKELY to be lucky with them.
Buying anything is a bit of luck, so how does that change the fact that from a "percent of luck" standpoint, you're more likely to be unlucky buying seagate?
As an example, consoles. Now this is old information and may not be accurate anymore. But, if all i wanted in a console was a likelihood it won't die, and i had a choice of xbox 360, ps3, or wii, i'd go with the wii, or maybe the ps3, and never the xbox 360. All of them have a chance of dying, and like you said, by technicality, all of them are like a lottery, but my chances of "winning" that lottery are different
If i went with an xbox 360, my chance of having a failing console was 23.7%
If i went with a PS3, my chance of having a failing console was 10%
And if i went with Wii, my chance of having a failing console was 2.7%
And obviously, more people are worried about the information they put on a hard drive that they can't recover if it fails completely. It's very understandable, that even though all of it is a "lottery", that people would steer clear of a manufacturer that has, as of lately, had not a good track record for long-lasting drives
You say that he has limited himself, yet you have?..
WD, Seagate, HGST (subsidiary of WD i know, but different fail rates, so they are different, and it's essentially Hitachi), Toshiba (basically what use to be fujitsu)
Kaarme
Reardan
I have a 500GB version of these in my PS3. Works reasonably well, loads quicker.
But this product here is complete garbage. 8GB cache on 2TB of space? Come on. By the time you re-access whatever you need to load quicker, the cached version will be long gone. Just too small. Needs like a 64 or 128GB SSD on board to be useful.
RooiKreef
In the last 2 years I had 4 Seagate hard drives that just stopped working without any warning. I will never touch a Seagate hdd again. The best is that all these hard drives were between 3 and 5 years old.
No thanks I will pass no matter what the price. Junk will always be junk.
kosh_neranek
Apart from Seagate being Seagate who on earth came with the idea of 8GB cache? 8GB?!?!Seriously? In this day and age? I really like the idea of SSHDs but wouldn't go for smaller than 64 GB cache.I know that 95% corporate users would be super happy about it but I wouldn't. And it would cost them very little to put at least 32gigs in.
Aura89
nevermind
Corrupt^
Only had 1 HDD fail on me (from all my Seagate drives) and it was somehow expected.
Had 2 1.5TB HDD's inside of my PC, 1 for data that's important (which I regularly back-upped to a 4TB HDD) and 1 as a HDD to basically constantly write data to from shadowplay, ... so it had quite a huge workload of X Gigabytes a day at 1 point in terms of writes.
Robbo9999
SetsunaFZero
techpowerup.com_Seagate-offers-firmware-fix
I had 3 Seagate HDDs 2 of them had some firmware issue, back in 2008 this was a big fuse since 2/3 of this HDD Type died worldwide. One HDD died after 2 years. All 3 HDDs where in warranty so i RMAed them. The 3 replacement HDDs are still running
Kaarme
A 64Gb NAND chip is probably dirt cheap these days and thus excellent for Seagate to use in the product.
readonly
Very annoying they aren't using more flash or making multiple models with more flash. I would gladly pay $50 more than what my 1TB SSHD cost a couple years ago for one with 64GB of flash. The new PS4 Pro is more or less confirmed to have Sata3 so it makes sense to put an SSD in it (compared to the old Sata2 PS4) My recommendation to anyone wanting to replace their PS4/PS4 Pro HDD is to opt for a 7200rpm drive that will fit the chassis rather than a 5400rpm 8GB SSHD as overall the performance will be better. Of course an SSD is the most preferred option.