Toshiba will release 14 TB HDD helium filled this year
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Ricepudding
As much as i love the big space, the fail rates on traditional hard drives are far to high for me to want to trust 14TB worth of data on them!! specially in the UK when download speeds are still so slow, having to re-download everything would take weeks if not months!
Stairmand
Great they are still increasing capacity, but (I suspect due to low demand) drive prices above 6TB are still stubbornly high.
Reddoguk
I think i would rather have 2x7TB than have a single massive 14TB drive. Like someone else said, that's a whole lot of data to lose on just one drive.
rl66
CitizenZero
JonasBeckman
You'd need two HDD's though so that would be expensive, both could fail too but that's rather unlikely to happen simultaneously I suppose. 😀
(3+ Of these and the Steam library would be less of a issue though, ha ha.)
(And other media of whatever kind I suppose, music, movies, that anime collection no one must ever find and so on...)
allesclar
FFS.
Why do we not just all downgrade our 2TB and 4TB drives back to 500MB drives of hell even 50MB drives because of the risk of losing "so much data"
Its an old invalid excuse and should be forgotten.
Its irrelevant as to how much data you have but more so how you back it up.
RAID 5 ( or X-RAID 2 in my case) gives me a 1 drive fail protection across my drives in my NAS. It is not the best i could do but the best i am willing to do considering the cost.
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allesclar
Ricepudding
holystarlight
the WD helium drives are awesome 2 x 10tb in a raid mirrored to my NAS, no issues with them in my server, but it is pretty scary having 14tb of data all alone, but tbh anyone buying such a drive will most likely be mirroring the data somewhere for backup either a Raid/NAS/Cloud. you would be crazy not too.
allesclar
Clawedge
i am curious about platter density, is it shingled or perpendicular?
Ricepudding