First. Why is there no sound/noise paragraph? What does this drive have that a Seagate Exos SATA 14TB enterprise drive doesn't have? Why is the price set so high for 10/12/14TB HDDs? How do I turn off video autoplay on anandtech.com please? Turning it off in Chrome doesn't seem to do it. Tnx
Autoplaying HTML5 videos, if it is such, is a browser feature. Out of the box, your options are "yes" or "no." And while it's tempting to say "no" it presents another problem: YouTube and other streaming sites that switched to HTML5 won't automatically start playing.
Browsers with autoplay enabled will only start HTML5 elements containing an 'autoplay' attribute -- i.e. it's Anandtech's choice to have their videos start playing for no reason unless we disable the feature globally.
The autoplaying video is one of AT's worst moves. For those of us that want to support the site by allowing additional advert content, it comes off as a kick in the face. It doesn't appear that there will be any sort of response. Download Firefox, grab Adblock, and get NoScript. Between those two you'll have a much happier browsing experience and you'll get away from Chrome acting as a conduit on your PC to enable Google to creep on everything you do through your web browser.
I think uBlock Origin would be a better choice than Adblock, whose creators get a kickback from ads they whitelist which goes against the whole point of having an ad blocker.
You can actually turn off autoplay HTML5 videos in Firefox by going to about:config and setting media.autoplay.enable to "False".
You can easily turn off the whitelist in Adblock. I didn't know about the autoplay disable functionality though. That's actually quite useful so thank you!
You should remember AT was sold recently to a major aggregator, you should expect more of this autoplay BS not less. Maybe it's time to find a new review site?
'For those of us that want to support the site by allowing additional advert content' it does not really matter if you allow it or not. What matters for them is to get you to click on them ads. If you only allow ad and don't click you are not helping them :)
I wonder if the advertisers are also in receipt of web page stats, not just actual clicks. Even if you don't click we see many of the ads. People don't click on billboards at the side if interstates either.
Thanks for at least looking into it Ryan. We know the ad content is a necessity for keeping the site up and running. Videos with automatic playback are just incredibly frustrating.
Drives of this class usually fairly quiet, because the platter dont push speed to extreme limits.
Barracuda Pro is designed to be integrated in a PC or workstation in single, non-RAID configuration with medium workloads. Exos is high end, server grade HDDs, designed for maximum performance in highest workloads in it's class, 24/7 operation in RAID setup. There is also huge difference in endurance between those two.
Factory output capacity of 10/12/14TB HDDs is around 10-15 pcs per day, so the price reflects higher production costs
I remember how bad I felt when my 4GB Western Digital drive on my Gateway 2000 P5-75 running Windows 95 failed. I lost all that data. I wonder what its like loosing 14 TB.
A similar loss of an old 4gb drive back in 2004 taught me the value of backups. Any data I really care about is on at least 2 independent drives. If my desktop dies, I can restore from my NAS, if my NAS dies I can restore from my desktop, some stuff (eg music) is also on my laptop and phone. More critical stuff is also backed up to the cloud, it's a subset of everything both for cost reasons and because for privacy related ones I refuse to upload full system images.
If you care about your data, you need to have another drive as backup. Although with 14TB (even more if building an array out of 14TB drives), you might well be into LTO tape land for your backup needs.
Slightly earlier generations of LTO are looking quite good these days, a fair few used drives on ebay. LTO4 looks optimal price-wise, though of course a single tape is nowhere near enough to archive one of these modern rust spinners, but sensible use of subfolders can take care of that. If you really care about your data, LTO5 isn't that expensive, new units on ebay UK atm for 225 UKP. Used prices do jump a lot for LTO6, though ironically the last new LTO6 tape I bought off ebay only cost me 11 UKP. :D
And of course, suitabe used SAS cards cost diddly squat.
Either way, the problem with using extra rust spinners as backups is they're prone to the same issues such as shock, mechanism degradation, etc. If you do go that route though, always buy the extra drives from different sources, helps ensure the drives come from different batches (that way if there's a batch fault, it's less likely to affect more than one of your drives).
AFAIK one the advantages of helium filled drives include being able to use thinner (and thus lighter) platters and less powerful motors (and lighter on a per platter basis, not sure about net) due to the lower air resistance.
Using helium helps with reducing turbulence near the platters allowing them to have these platters closer to each other, or slightly thinner platter, or both of these worlds to have more platters. But another thing about He filled drives is that platters faces lesser friction than regular air-filled drives, making the motor doing less work to maintain it's speed which eventually means lower power usage.
But He filled drives are more expensive to make, not because of the Helium it self which only costs a little. But because Helium is too light and can escape very easily from any tiny hole and even macroscopic holes like how Helium filled balloons inflate with time because Helium is very good at escaping, They had to design the HDD to be completely sealed to force the Helium inside. And because Helium is used mainly to put in more platters in the drive so gaining more capacity per drive there's no point in adding it to smaller drives with these extra costs and complications. The only benefit then is to save more power.
Same here. I've got a 1TB 2.5 inch drive in an external case that I plug into my laptop for backing up the 500GB SSD. There's less than 250GB used. Not everyone has so little data though and its nice to see Seagate seeling capacity to those that want or need it. It looks a lot like some of the features are inherited directly from enterprise drives which makes me suspect a rebrand, but not a bad one given the additional features.
Mostly cost, although once you get into 40TB raid land I suspect the convenience of >10TB drives outweighs the issue of buying multiple 8 port SATA pci-e cards to go along with 16 3TB drives. The 3TB still wins in cost (although any more and I'd look into jumping to 4TB, the cost of the ports outweighs the cost of the parity drives) and you can also bump up to RAID 6. On second thought, I'm not sure how I'm going to wrap a case around 16 drives: that might be the biggest hurdle.
Not that I'm convinced that RAID6 is necessary (as far as I can tell most "you need RAID6" assumed that bad bits were randomly dispersed and that a single bad bit would kill your data, actually bad bits have to be in 4k(byte) chunks (32,000 times as rare as they thought) and that at least consumers aren't going to store anything that can't afford a single [sector] of error (at least at 40TB level). But If I'm already buying 15 hard drives for RAID5, I'll bump it up to RAID6.
Do you back that monster up on LTO? Picking up refurbished/semi-obsolete LTO for consumer gear appears complicated (but eventually justifies the cost): picking up "list price pro gear" makes more sense to have a backup RAID array.
It's not related to cost. Someone just knows RAID used to be a buzzword and he has to slip into the conversation to add weight to some dubious opinions.
Seagate stands a lot better now reliability wise than it used to. Backblaze data seems to back this up. Drives don't "come" in RAID. You build it. Pretty sure he also goes for RAID 5 because it's "better", ""best performance/safety ratio".
RAID 5 and 6 don't protect from data corruption, just dataloss. ZFS has an custom implementation of RAID 5 and 6 that can detect corruption and figure out which source has an uncorrupted version.
There are many other reasons than passive data corruption that can mess up your RAID 5/6.
Somehow I don't think I'm building a >40TB array with anything but ZFS (plus its own RAID).
RAID is overblown and I'd expect more failures from things other than drives self-bricking. RAID's best feature is probably for yanking a drive due to SMART failures or aging out of an array. You'd have to take down a JBOD array to image a new drive from the one aged out. I wouldn't expect you to want to use the data from a drive yanked due to SMART failures. If you are just going to "build and forget" the array, RAID isn't buying you much.
If your network is up to it (it probably isn't), a good RAID should be able to handle the bandwidth of a large chunk of files being copied from an SSD (and easily should handle it if they are on the same computer, but that seriously limits your filesystem choices. Don't do that).
The value of data on a drive does not strictly depend on its size. Backup if it's important, don't if it's just temp storage or can easily be regenerated.
RAID 1 is the perfect way to ensure that any fcukup with the data on one drive is promptly replicated on the second one. In most normal cases performing a sync later is a much better option. A little more resistant to errors.
Agree with others here that the list price is (way) too high, even for 14 TB. They need to bring that way down to be competitive on the price per Gb storage ratio. @Ganesh: Did you have a chance to ask Seagate about the reliability of these (very large) 'Cuda drives? Seagates Baracuda HDDs have had a, let's call it, "spotty" reliability over the last several years, also borne out in the survival stats at Backblaze. I would feel a lot more comfortable recommending these drives to customers if Seagate would be open about how they made sure that their drives are once again competitive with WD, Toshiba and, especially, HGST when it comes to reliability. A 5 year warranty is nice, but that means little if you end up spending days restoring > 7 TB from backups, which I hope you made frequently/daily. Remember, there are only two types of storage, regardless of technology: the one that failed, and the one that hasn't failed yet.
Have you looked at any of the backblaze data in the past 2 years? The 6TB and up Seagates are doing excellently, as are the HGSTs, and WD is now the one trailing the pack. Obviously this one is too new to have any data yet, but the Seagate 6, 8, and 12TB drives are sitting around 1% AFR and the 10TB are down at 0.32% (though admittedly from a much smaller sample size - it looks like they pretty much skipped right over the 10TB generation and went straight for 12s, so the 10TB data is from only around a thousand drives).
Personally, I would not be using these in a RAID array. I would be using a RAID array of smaller disks that added up to a real world capacity similar to the single drive. With a RAID 5, you could tolerate a single drive failing without data loss.
Most Enterprise storage vendors reommend RAID 6 for SATA drives due to their poor fault detecting abilities. What this can mean is when you have a disk in a RAID 5 fail and be replaced, during the 7 days it takes to rebuild your raid the extra load will either break another disk or you will suddenly find you have a undetected dead spot on a drive and your RAID will collapse. Still at least with the Disk recovery service you can get back your data, no wait you raided it so no chance. Buy one disk and copy/backup to the cloud, no wait only have 0.5Mb/s up link on my fibre internet.......
>In the desktop gaming market, per-game storage requirements are running into 100s of GBs, and SSDs continue to remain above $0.20/GB. Under these circumstances, high-capacity hard drives are continuing to remain relevant.
I couldn't go back to hard drive storage for gaming.
I'd hate to do so too, but not everyone can afford 1 or 2TB SSDs; and smaller sizes don't play nice with >100GB game installs. The flip side is that the semi-common gaming laptop spec of a 256/512GB SSD and 1TB HDD really needs an upgrade to the HDD too. That in turn needs the HDD makers to put out a 2TB 7200 RPM drive at something less than enterprise prices, and figure out how to cram 3TB into the 2.5" form factor in the reasonably near future.
It's not just that at 15mm they don't fit in laptops, those are 5400rpm drives not 7200. Spinning rust is bad enough under any circumstances, 5400 RPM is unacceptably worse for anything where IO performance matters at all.
Yeah, that made me laugh when looking at the benchmark app info in the screenshots. :D
Guess I'm old school, brought up with 2^n, but it is funny that the capacities are now so high, the real TB capacity (stuff this decimal nonsense) is more than an entire TB less than it first appears.
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SSTANIC - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
First. Why is there no sound/noise paragraph? What does this drive have that a Seagate Exos SATA 14TB enterprise drive doesn't have? Why is the price set so high for 10/12/14TB HDDs? How do I turn off video autoplay on anandtech.com please? Turning it off in Chrome doesn't seem to do it. Tnxsvan1971 - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Ublock Origin deals the videos and ads very well.xenol - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Autoplaying HTML5 videos, if it is such, is a browser feature. Out of the box, your options are "yes" or "no." And while it's tempting to say "no" it presents another problem: YouTube and other streaming sites that switched to HTML5 won't automatically start playing.FLHerne - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Browsers with autoplay enabled will only start HTML5 elements containing an 'autoplay' attribute -- i.e. it's Anandtech's choice to have their videos start playing for no reason unless we disable the feature globally.Even on YouTube it can be annoying sometimes.
GreenReaper - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Firefox is doing it so that you can select per-site now, as well as globally. Not sure about Chrome.PeachNCream - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
The autoplaying video is one of AT's worst moves. For those of us that want to support the site by allowing additional advert content, it comes off as a kick in the face. It doesn't appear that there will be any sort of response. Download Firefox, grab Adblock, and get NoScript. Between those two you'll have a much happier browsing experience and you'll get away from Chrome acting as a conduit on your PC to enable Google to creep on everything you do through your web browser.kaidenshi - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
I think uBlock Origin would be a better choice than Adblock, whose creators get a kickback from ads they whitelist which goes against the whole point of having an ad blocker.You can actually turn off autoplay HTML5 videos in Firefox by going to about:config and setting media.autoplay.enable to "False".
PeachNCream - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
You can easily turn off the whitelist in Adblock. I didn't know about the autoplay disable functionality though. That's actually quite useful so thank you!rahvin - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
You should remember AT was sold recently to a major aggregator, you should expect more of this autoplay BS not less. Maybe it's time to find a new review site?milkod2001 - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
'For those of us that want to support the site by allowing additional advert content'it does not really matter if you allow it or not. What matters for them is to get you to click on them ads. If you only allow ad and don't click you are not helping them :)
DanNeely - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
It depends on the type of the ad. There are both pay for display and pay for click ads.Digitalclips - Sunday, October 7, 2018 - link
I wonder if the advertisers are also in receipt of web page stats, not just actual clicks. Even if you don't click we see many of the ads. People don't click on billboards at the side if interstates either.medivh - Monday, January 20, 2020 - link
I have a pihole. I didn't even realize this site had ads at all.Ryan Smith - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
"How do I turn off video autoplay on anandtech.com please?"Unfortunately our publisher is not enabling that option. Sorry.
Devo2007 - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
That's going to either drive people away from the site or increase the use of ad blockers; neither of which is beneficial.29a - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Fortunately Ublock Origin does enable that option.PeachNCream - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Thanks for at least looking into it Ryan. We know the ad content is a necessity for keeping the site up and running. Videos with automatic playback are just incredibly frustrating.maco - Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - link
I’m close to removing Anandtech from my ad blocker’s whitelist because the video is so intrusive.29a - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
I 2nd using UBlock Origin to block the videos._Rain - Saturday, September 22, 2018 - link
Drives of this class usually fairly quiet, because the platter dont push speed to extreme limits.Barracuda Pro is designed to be integrated in a PC or workstation in single, non-RAID configuration with medium workloads. Exos is high end, server grade HDDs, designed for maximum performance in highest workloads in it's class, 24/7 operation in RAID setup. There is also huge difference in endurance between those two.
Factory output capacity of 10/12/14TB HDDs is around 10-15 pcs per day, so the price reflects higher production costs
czartech - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
take a raspberry pi and install pi-hole. no more ads!svan1971 - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
I remember how bad I felt when my 4GB Western Digital drive on my Gateway 2000 P5-75 running Windows 95 failed. I lost all that data. I wonder what its like loosing 14 TB.DanNeely - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
A similar loss of an old 4gb drive back in 2004 taught me the value of backups. Any data I really care about is on at least 2 independent drives. If my desktop dies, I can restore from my NAS, if my NAS dies I can restore from my desktop, some stuff (eg music) is also on my laptop and phone. More critical stuff is also backed up to the cloud, it's a subset of everything both for cost reasons and because for privacy related ones I refuse to upload full system images.wumpus - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
If you care about your data, you need to have another drive as backup. Although with 14TB (even more if building an array out of 14TB drives), you might well be into LTO tape land for your backup needs.stephenbrooks - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Yeah this is the problem with drives costing $500 is that you then need to buy 2 or 3 of them to have good backups!mapesdhs - Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - link
Slightly earlier generations of LTO are looking quite good these days, a fair few used drives on ebay. LTO4 looks optimal price-wise, though of course a single tape is nowhere near enough to archive one of these modern rust spinners, but sensible use of subfolders can take care of that. If you really care about your data, LTO5 isn't that expensive, new units on ebay UK atm for 225 UKP. Used prices do jump a lot for LTO6, though ironically the last new LTO6 tape I bought off ebay only cost me 11 UKP. :DAnd of course, suitabe used SAS cards cost diddly squat.
Either way, the problem with using extra rust spinners as backups is they're prone to the same issues such as shock, mechanism degradation, etc. If you do go that route though, always buy the extra drives from different sources, helps ensure the drives come from different batches (that way if there's a batch fault, it's less likely to affect more than one of your drives).
29a - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
4GB would have been quite a hefty drive for a P75.boozed - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Are you suggesting that the smaller drives don't use helium because they're heavier?!DanNeely - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
AFAIK one the advantages of helium filled drives include being able to use thinner (and thus lighter) platters and less powerful motors (and lighter on a per platter basis, not sure about net) due to the lower air resistance.boozed - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Right, thanks for the explanation. The way it's excited in the article is quite ambiguous IMO.boozed - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
*expressedXajel - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Using helium helps with reducing turbulence near the platters allowing them to have these platters closer to each other, or slightly thinner platter, or both of these worlds to have more platters. But another thing about He filled drives is that platters faces lesser friction than regular air-filled drives, making the motor doing less work to maintain it's speed which eventually means lower power usage.But He filled drives are more expensive to make, not because of the Helium it self which only costs a little. But because Helium is too light and can escape very easily from any tiny hole and even macroscopic holes like how Helium filled balloons inflate with time because Helium is very good at escaping, They had to design the HDD to be completely sealed to force the Helium inside. And because Helium is used mainly to put in more platters in the drive so gaining more capacity per drive there's no point in adding it to smaller drives with these extra costs and complications. The only benefit then is to save more power.
GreenReaper - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
I think you mean *mi*croscopic holes. Macroscopic makes me think of Donut County:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/donut-count...
Teknobug - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
14GB! I haven't even filled my 1GB drives yet.Teknobug - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
14TB & 1TB*^ brain fart
PeachNCream - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Same here. I've got a 1TB 2.5 inch drive in an external case that I plug into my laptop for backing up the 500GB SSD. There's less than 250GB used. Not everyone has so little data though and its nice to see Seagate seeling capacity to those that want or need it. It looks a lot like some of the features are inherited directly from enterprise drives which makes me suspect a rebrand, but not a bad one given the additional features.Samus - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Pfft, the ExploitedCollegeGirls library alone is 1TB...timecop1818 - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Seagate? Nope. Drives over 4-5TB not in RAID? Nope. I'd like to actually keep my data.Hixbot - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
What's preventing you from using RAID with this drive? I have 5 of the 10tb versions in raid 5.wumpus - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Mostly cost, although once you get into 40TB raid land I suspect the convenience of >10TB drives outweighs the issue of buying multiple 8 port SATA pci-e cards to go along with 16 3TB drives. The 3TB still wins in cost (although any more and I'd look into jumping to 4TB, the cost of the ports outweighs the cost of the parity drives) and you can also bump up to RAID 6. On second thought, I'm not sure how I'm going to wrap a case around 16 drives: that might be the biggest hurdle.Not that I'm convinced that RAID6 is necessary (as far as I can tell most "you need RAID6" assumed that bad bits were randomly dispersed and that a single bad bit would kill your data, actually bad bits have to be in 4k(byte) chunks (32,000 times as rare as they thought) and that at least consumers aren't going to store anything that can't afford a single [sector] of error (at least at 40TB level). But If I'm already buying 15 hard drives for RAID5, I'll bump it up to RAID6.
Do you back that monster up on LTO? Picking up refurbished/semi-obsolete LTO for consumer gear appears complicated (but eventually justifies the cost): picking up "list price pro gear" makes more sense to have a backup RAID array.
close - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
It's not related to cost. Someone just knows RAID used to be a buzzword and he has to slip into the conversation to add weight to some dubious opinions.Seagate stands a lot better now reliability wise than it used to. Backblaze data seems to back this up. Drives don't "come" in RAID. You build it. Pretty sure he also goes for RAID 5 because it's "better", ""best performance/safety ratio".
bcronce - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
RAID 5 and 6 don't protect from data corruption, just dataloss. ZFS has an custom implementation of RAID 5 and 6 that can detect corruption and figure out which source has an uncorrupted version.There are many other reasons than passive data corruption that can mess up your RAID 5/6.
wumpus - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Somehow I don't think I'm building a >40TB array with anything but ZFS (plus its own RAID).RAID is overblown and I'd expect more failures from things other than drives self-bricking. RAID's best feature is probably for yanking a drive due to SMART failures or aging out of an array. You'd have to take down a JBOD array to image a new drive from the one aged out. I wouldn't expect you to want to use the data from a drive yanked due to SMART failures. If you are just going to "build and forget" the array, RAID isn't buying you much.
If your network is up to it (it probably isn't), a good RAID should be able to handle the bandwidth of a large chunk of files being copied from an SSD (and easily should handle it if they are on the same computer, but that seriously limits your filesystem choices. Don't do that).
MrSpadge - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
The value of data on a drive does not strictly depend on its size. Backup if it's important, don't if it's just temp storage or can easily be regenerated.Beaver M. - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Im running 2 12 TB not in RAID. Just using one of them as backup. Much safer than a RAID.No idea what youre talking about.
mapesdhs - Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - link
Are both drives in the same system? Hope you don't get a lightning strike. :}Just curious though, what's "safer" about doing it manually than simply using RAID1?
close - Thursday, September 13, 2018 - link
RAID 1 is the perfect way to ensure that any fcukup with the data on one drive is promptly replicated on the second one. In most normal cases performing a sync later is a much better option. A little more resistant to errors.eastcoast_pete - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Agree with others here that the list price is (way) too high, even for 14 TB. They need to bring that way down to be competitive on the price per Gb storage ratio.@Ganesh: Did you have a chance to ask Seagate about the reliability of these (very large) 'Cuda drives? Seagates Baracuda HDDs have had a, let's call it, "spotty" reliability over the last several years, also borne out in the survival stats at Backblaze. I would feel a lot more comfortable recommending these drives to customers if Seagate would be open about how they made sure that their drives are once again competitive with WD, Toshiba and, especially, HGST when it comes to reliability. A 5 year warranty is nice, but that means little if you end up spending days restoring > 7 TB from backups, which I hope you made frequently/daily. Remember, there are only two types of storage, regardless of technology: the one that failed, and the one that hasn't failed yet.
cjl - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Have you looked at any of the backblaze data in the past 2 years? The 6TB and up Seagates are doing excellently, as are the HGSTs, and WD is now the one trailing the pack. Obviously this one is too new to have any data yet, but the Seagate 6, 8, and 12TB drives are sitting around 1% AFR and the 10TB are down at 0.32% (though admittedly from a much smaller sample size - it looks like they pretty much skipped right over the 10TB generation and went straight for 12s, so the 10TB data is from only around a thousand drives).imaheadcase - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Kinda silly to run these in RAID for home use, especially since these sizes most likely be on a server and network will limit it anyways.Ratman6161 - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Personally, I would not be using these in a RAID array. I would be using a RAID array of smaller disks that added up to a real world capacity similar to the single drive. With a RAID 5, you could tolerate a single drive failing without data loss.Byte - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Since it is a Seagate, that's a lot of data to lose.lorribot - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Most Enterprise storage vendors reommend RAID 6 for SATA drives due to their poor fault detecting abilities.What this can mean is when you have a disk in a RAID 5 fail and be replaced, during the 7 days it takes to rebuild your raid the extra load will either break another disk or you will suddenly find you have a undetected dead spot on a drive and your RAID will collapse. Still at least with the Disk recovery service you can get back your data, no wait you raided it so no chance.
Buy one disk and copy/backup to the cloud, no wait only have 0.5Mb/s up link on my fibre internet.......
Diji1 - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
>In the desktop gaming market, per-game storage requirements are running into 100s of GBs, and SSDs continue to remain above $0.20/GB. Under these circumstances, high-capacity hard drives are continuing to remain relevant.I couldn't go back to hard drive storage for gaming.
DanNeely - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
I'd hate to do so too, but not everyone can afford 1 or 2TB SSDs; and smaller sizes don't play nice with >100GB game installs. The flip side is that the semi-common gaming laptop spec of a 256/512GB SSD and 1TB HDD really needs an upgrade to the HDD too. That in turn needs the HDD makers to put out a 2TB 7200 RPM drive at something less than enterprise prices, and figure out how to cram 3TB into the 2.5" form factor in the reasonably near future.Ratman6161 - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Your wish has been granted. See:https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01M0AADIX/ref=twister...
DanNeely - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
It's not just that at 15mm they don't fit in laptops, those are 5400rpm drives not 7200. Spinning rust is bad enough under any circumstances, 5400 RPM is unacceptably worse for anything where IO performance matters at all.GTVic - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
14TB, Otherwise known as 12.7TB...cjl - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
14TB. Tera = 10^12, and this drive has 14*10^12 bytes.mapesdhs - Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - link
Yeah, that made me laugh when looking at the benchmark app info in the screenshots. :DGuess I'm old school, brought up with 2^n, but it is funny that the capacities are now so high, the real TB capacity (stuff this decimal nonsense) is more than an entire TB less than it first appears.
svan1971 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
I really don't need 14 TB at $580, I need 4TB at $80. Platters keep getting denser but prices never come down.vaibhav24 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
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This report focuses on Enterprise Flash Storage volume and value at global level, regional level and company level. From a global perspective, this report represents overall Enterprise Flash Storage market size by analyzing historical data and future prospect. Regionally, this report focuses on several key regions: North America, Europe, China and Japan.
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BillS - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link
DRS?