5TB HDDs in the pipeline

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Check theseÂ*leaked roadmaps that show Western Digital's plans for its NAS-optimized Red and energy-efficient Green hard drive lineups. The slides reveal that we can expect the first 5TB HDDs about a...

5TB HDDs in the pipeline

PhazeDelta1 · 12-04-2012, 08:39 | posts: 9,535 | Location: 90° N

Bring on those WD Reds. I could use a few more.

BLEH! · **Memory**: 24GB @ 1600 @ 9-10-9-27

Hello 25 TB RAID 5 array

John · 12-04-2012, 12:48 | posts: 16,425 | Location: Northern Norway

Good, that should make 4TB prices drop. My file server needs more space. Now.

dk_lightning · 12-04-2012, 13:06 | posts: 707 | Location: North Wales

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 · **Memory**: 6GB DDR3-2000 9-9-9-24-1T

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).

RoadKillNL · 12-04-2012, 13:38 | posts: 2,677 | Location: Netherlands

I feel like getting a 2,5 Inch Drive for my PC instead. They are so freakin quiet.

BLEH! · **Memory**: 24GB @ 1600 @ 9-10-9-27

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Originally Posted by John

Good, that should make 4TB prices drop. My file server needs more space. Now.

How much storage you got in that thing?

TirolokoRD · 12-04-2012, 15:00 | posts: 1,623 | Location: Dominican Republic

4tb drop?, I have only saw hitachi models around, any others?

John · 12-04-2012, 15:03 | posts: 16,425 | Location: Northern Norway

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Originally Posted by BLEH!

How much storage you got in that thing?

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.

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Originally Posted by TirolokoRD

4tb drop?, I have only saw hitachi models around, any others?

WD has 4TB models as well, just not GP drives (Black and RE).

PhazeDelta1 · 12-04-2012, 16:13 | posts: 9,535 | Location: 90° N

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 12-04-2012, 17:49 | posts: 1,623 | Location: Dominican Republic

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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).

17TB????, ohhh comeeee onnn

, tell me the % of prom you have there

Year · 12-04-2012, 18:32 | posts: 11,666 | Location: ♫

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 · 12-04-2012, 18:37 | posts: 16,425 | Location: Northern Norway

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Originally Posted by TirolokoRD

17TB????, ohhh comeeee onnn

, tell me the % of prom you have there

0%, actually.

100% film and TV. Nothing else.

Mufflore · 12-04-2012, 19:29 | posts: 9,833 | Location: UK

Ebuyer has an external 4TB Hitachi on USB 3 for only £130 !!
http://www.ebuyer.com/339426-hitachi...-drive-0s03400

I dont get it, USB 3 external drives have no price premium over bare drives.

dk_lightning · 12-04-2012, 19:44 | posts: 707 | Location: North Wales

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Originally Posted by Mufflore

Ebuyer has an external 4TB Hitachi on USB 3 for only £130 !!
http://www.ebuyer.com/339426-hitachi...-drive-0s03400

I dont get it, USB 3 external drives have no price premium over bare drives.

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 · 12-04-2012, 19:53 | posts: 16,425 | Location: Northern Norway

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 · 12-04-2012, 20:28 | posts: 1,623 | Location: Dominican Republic

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Originally Posted by John

0%, actually.

100% film and TV. Nothing else.

Damm, nice one...I am starting to do my own blu ray rips to my PC. Would love to see your set up.

Ryu5uzaku · 12-04-2012, 20:35 | posts: 3,250 | Location: Finland

17TB O.o i got only 8 :< goddamn. need to buy more space tho running out fast... got some 500gb free.

John · 12-04-2012, 21:22 | posts: 16,425 | Location: Northern Norway

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Originally Posted by TirolokoRD

Damm, nice one...I am starting to do my own blu ray rips to my PC. Would love to see your set up.

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/j...a/CIMG5809.jpg

It ain't pretty, but I never see it anyway.

TheSarge · 12-04-2012, 21:28 | posts: 609 | Location: The Frozen North.

Great. I need more storage space for my porn collection.

sdamaged99 · 12-04-2012, 21:29 | posts: 1,913 | Location: Isle of Man

Only 3.7TB left on my 18.1TB RAID6 volume. Could do with the price of 4TB drives plummeting and replacing mine.

Ji1986 · 12-05-2012, 00:09 | posts: 831 | Location: Australia

5TB would be great, have everything on one HDD. and then another for backup (RAID)

Finchwizard

Considering you shouldn't put Green drives in NAS units because they tend to try and and spin down when they shouldn't.

Most NAS companies like QNAP don't even recommend some of the WD drives let alone Green drives.

Kaleid · 12-05-2012, 02:51 | posts: 2,023 | Location: Sweden

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Originally Posted by RoadKillNL

I feel like getting a 2,5 Inch Drive for my PC instead. They are so freakin quiet.

Not all, I had a very noisy WD Black 2.5", which sounds a lot more than a very quiet WD Green EARS/EARX.