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6TB drives available
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Yeah saw this. I can't imagine they will be any kind of cost effective though, not for a while. Hopefully the new architecture will drop current 1tb per plate drives down though! I'd like to get a couple 2tb drives and raid them, but its not cost effective yet.
I like higher platter density! I didn't click on the link (I'm mobile), maybe it's in there, but I'm curious about the speed and platter quantity...
With respect bob, is anything cost effective for you? SSDs aren't to you, so one would imagine hdd would be. You seem to expect pc hardware to cost as much as a pack of gum for things to be cost effective.
With respect bob, is anything cost effective for you? SSDs aren't to you, so one would imagine hdd would be. You seem to expect pc hardware to cost as much as a pack of gum for things to be cost effective.
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I tried to copy & paste for you EarthDog
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Specifications:
Interface SATA 6Gb/s
Capacity (GB) 6TB
Sector size (variable, Bytes/sector) 512n
Max Areal Density (Gbits/sq. in.) 544
Form Factor 3.5-inch HDD
Performance
Data Buffer (MB) 64
Rotational Speed (RPM) 7200
Interface transfer rate (MB/sec, max) 600
Sustained transfer rate (MB/sec, typ.) 177
Seek Time (read, ms, typical) 8.5
Reliability
Error Rate (non-recoverable, bits read) 1 in 10^15
MTBF (M hours) 2.0
Load/Unload Cycles 600,000
Availability (hrs/day x days/wk) 24x7
Reliability - Warranty (yrs) 5
Acoustics
Idle (Bels) 2.0
Power
Requirement +5 VDC (+/-5%), +12VDC (+/-5%)
Startup current (A, max) 1.2 (+5V), 2.0 (+12V)
Read/Write (W, avg) 7.3
Active Idle (W, avg) 5.3
Unload Idle (W) 3.7
Physical size
Z-Height (mm) 26.1
Dimensions (width x depth, mm) 101.6(+/-0.25)x147
Weight (g, max) 640
Environmental (operating)
Ambient temperature 5º to 60º C
Shock (half-sine wave) 70
Vibration (5 to 500 Hz) 0.67 (XYZ)
Environmental (non-operating)
Ambient temperature -40º to 70º C
Shock (half-sine wave) 300
Vibration (5 to 500 Hz) 1.04 (XYZ)For $805, these aren't cost-effective for the home consumer (and these are enterprise drives). But time will tell when these consumer versions become available.
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No matter whatever the price, I prefer to wait on new technology until it has had time to either prove itself or get any bugs worked out.
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Price is a joke theres better technology out can't remember it tho
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Weren't these like $6k when they came out? At $800 it's obviously not a great buy for a consumer but I imagine that's somewhat competitive in IT? Not sure, though.
Either way, great strides. I just condensed and tidied all my data and it's still 11TB jam packed
6TB drives would be great because two drives > 3 4tb drives
Either way, great strides. I just condensed and tidied all my data and it's still 11TB jam packed
6TB drives would be great because two drives > 3 4tb drives
Weren't these like $6k when they came out? At $800 it's obviously not a great buy for a consumer but I imagine that's somewhat competitive in IT? Not sure, though.
Either way, great strides. I just condensed and tidied all my data and it's still 11TB jam packed
6TB drives would be great because two drives > 3 4tb drives
I would think two 6tb drives = three 4tb drives.
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NSA is going to do some upgrading, that's for sure!
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Well guess we can talk, email, transfer data, etc 50% more if they upgrade the drives
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Is there really a reason to have that much data on a single platter drive? I'm more of a fan of spreading my data over 2 or more drives, that way if one dies, I'm not out all my data (cause realistically backing up a 6tb drive would be cumbersome).
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Cloud servers.
They run hundreds or thousands of drives, so the parity is there.
Add 2 more TB to a drive, and they love you.
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Why would it be cumbersome? Just use another 6TB drive and a folder/file syncing program like FreeFileSync. After the initial backup, only files that are added, changed, or deleted since the previous backup are sent or deleted from the backup when doing subsequent backups.
I do a daily backup of a 2TB drive to two 2TB drives (duplicates). Yesterday, I had 8Gb of added, changed and deleted data to be backed up and it only took seven minutes per backup HDD.
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