WD 10 TB-5400 rpm beats HST 4 TB-7200 RPM?

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In CrystalDiskMark, the recently reviewed WD 10 TB drive scored ~212 MB sec reads on sequential transfers...; just curious how this could possibly top the HGST 4 TB/ 7200 RPM drive, which scores a paltry 180 MB/sec by comparison in my rig....

Who can explain this sorcery?


(I'd have lost money on a bet between the two, based on what I might have wagered would have happened!)

https://www.servethehome.com/massive-10tb-capacity-wd-red-10tb-nas-hard-drives/
 
9.3 TB.....where'd we lose that 700 GB?

The 'ole "Let's just call 1000 MB One gigabyte to sound more impressive!" dilemma of 1996....squared; that 24 MB shortage per gigabyte, and 24 GB shortage per terabyte...It sure adds up (or rather does not) over many thousands of Gigabytes.... :)

It's time manufacturers learn that 1000 GB is not a terabyte... :)
 
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It's time to make the 3.5" hard drives thicker and change the standard form factor to squeeze more capacity out of these babies. I mean, really. It's going in a big box in the corner of the room. Who cares how big it is? I'd love a 50TB hard drive right about now without the helium BS and high failure rates. I was really hoping that SSD's would be competitive with capacities by now, but that's just not happening. At this rate a 4TB SSD will still cost $200 in 2025 and hard drives will have a 50TB capacity.
 
sapphirescales said:
It's time to make the 3.5" hard drives thicker and change the standard form factor to squeeze more capacity out of these babies. I mean, really. It's going in a big box in the corner of the room. Who cares how big it is?
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Isn't that what IBM said about the floppy disk and out came 8" floppies - LOL!

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Diggs said:
Isn't that what IBM said about the floppy disk and out came 8" floppies - LOL!
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I'm not advocating hard drives with physically larger platters. They already did that with the Quantum Bigfoot drives (5.25" drives). The result was a slow, expensive drive with high failure rates. I'm suggesting that they add more platters while maintaining the same platter size. That would make it thicker than the 1.25" (or however thick it is), while not reducing speed.
 
sapphirescales said:
At this rate a 4TB SSD will still cost $200 in 2025 and hard drives will have a 50TB capacity.
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Who outside a corporation would need 50Tb of storage?
I have plenty of clients, business and residential that have 1 Tb hard drives with less than 20% used.
I can just imagine that conversation with the client when that 50TB drive fails!
"Do you have a backup?" o_O
 
Barcelona said:
Who outside a corporation would need 50Tb of storage?
I have plenty of clients, business and residential that have 1 Tb hard drives with less than 20% used.
I can just imagine that conversation with the client when that 50TB drive fails!
"Do you have a backup?" o_O
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The same thing can be said of 10TB hard drives available today. You're not going to see a 10TB hard drive in a Dell that someone bought from Best Buy. 10TB drives are for professionals and power users. You know, the kind of people that don't buy a Dell or an HP. In the same vein, a 50TB hard drive would be for professionals and power users as well. To the average person, a 1TB drive is just as useless as a 50TB drive, but they aren't the target of these big drives. I could easily fill a 50TB hard drive in a few years.
 
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I run a ~30TB unraid array between 20 or so drives in a 24 drive Norco case. It stores my media libraries, photos, customer network backups, etc.

It's needing some larger drives now.
 
Imagine building a nice freenas box, even 3 drives at 50tb each is what 100tb? Could be nice for your own personal cloud.
 
PeterJohn said:
Hi...as per my knowledge they already did that with the Quantum Bigfoot drives (5.25" drives). The result was a slow, expensive drive with high failure rates. I'm suggesting that they add more platters while maintaining the same platter size.
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Hello robot. Bleep, blorp.
 
I'm working on the 100 TB Fremont Desmodromic AutoRaid drive, with 40 counter-rotating platters and redundant on-platter micro-head arrays, operating at 50,000 rpm. Sounds like a Harbor Freight die grinder but it does make espresso too and comes with free earplugs. So pony up for your own little piece of the future, grab a mug and you too will be saying:

"Damn that's good data!"
 
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