New Hitachi HDD Could Lead to 4TB and 5TB

[Lutfij]

4~5TB...wonder how long that will take to reach shelves? I'd get one though need a LOT of storage now...

 

[doomsdaydave11]

I haven't filled up my 500GB WD Caviar Black. I really don't know what a regular consumer would do with a 4TB HDD.

 

[toughbook]

The last time I checked WD owns Maxtor. Correct me if i'm wrong please. Like the other guy said, all HDD manufactures have had some bad apples. Hitchi and Seagate are the only one's that have never died on me, also none of my Intel SSD drives even give a hiccup.
What amazes me is that people will spend thousands of dollars building a system and bitch about $300.00 to 400.00 SSD prices. You gotta pay to play!

 

[mpavao81]

[citation][nom]toughbook[/nom]The last time I checked WD owns Maxtor. Correct me if i'm wrong please. Like the other guy said, all HDD manufactures have had some bad apples. Hitchi and Seagate are the only one's that have never died on me, also none of my Intel SSD drives even give a hiccup. What amazes me is that people will spend thousands of dollars building a system and bitch about $300.00 to 400.00 SSD prices. You gotta pay to play![/citation]

Its actually Seagate that owns Maxtor.

 

[kingnoobe]

Still doesn't make it true pocket. Look at all hard drives on newegg or tigerdirect. Find one with a good amount of reviews, and tell me when you found a 5egg/star one. I have yet to see one. There usually 4 star because of DOA or dieing quickly.

 

[Guest]

The fact that this drive crams 500GB on one platter is one thing. But until a larger and real product is market ready.... this article is more just fan cheering.

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]Several drive issues with one manufacturer does point to crap quality. I don't buy Hitachie or Maxtor drives because they aren't well made. You can only take so many DOA drives before you blacklist a company. I'm rockin' WD Blacks now, everything running just fine.[/citation]

I think one if not the worst HDD batch of all times were the 40GB Maxtor.

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]doomsdaydave11[/nom]I haven't filled up my 500GB WD Caviar Black. I really don't know what a regular consumer would do with a 4TB HDD.[/citation]

Well my 6TB JBOD array is almost full. Dont you rip rental movies (DVDs and some BRs) like a regular consumer?

 

[v12v12]

Fcsk these drives... spinning discs, esp 5400rpm is pure technological metering reaching it's MAX potential. Do you know how long it takes to perform any kind of physical scan, repair, defrag of these slow behemoths? My 2GB drive is the FASTEST near-line model you can get, and it takes FOREVER to accomplish said tasks. When an SSD would just destroy it all together. I'm sorry, but as much as I love cheaper space; using these drives in a practical and overall manner is just beyond realistic technological limits of mechanics.

Aka mechanical drives are the dinosaur; nobody's told the greedy, metered HD-technology industry yet! These are at best CCTV/slow access, high storage applicable ONLY. Even then, if there's drive/OS maintenance involved = mud slow!!!

People stop buying 5xxx Rpm crap! 10,000RPM 500GB-1TB-2TB HDs should have LONG been out before SSDs. Nope the greedy old-boy industry over shot their mark and now they are scrambling to keep pace with new-blood SSD firms. HAha lets offer the public slower drives and call them "green." How fscking ironic!

 

[v12v12]

Fcsk these drives... spinning discs, esp 5400rpm is pure technological metering reaching it's MAX potential. Do you know how long it takes to perform any kind of physical scan, repair, defrag of these slow behemoths? My 2GB drive is the FASTEST near-line model you can get, and it takes FOREVER to accomplish said tasks. When an SSD would just destroy it all together. I'm sorry, but as much as I love cheaper space; using these drives in a practical and overall manner is just beyond realistic technological limits of mechanics.

Aka mechanical drives are the dinosaur; nobody's told the greedy, metered HD-technology industry yet! These are at best CCTV/slow access, high storage applicable ONLY. Even then, if there's drive/OS maintenance involved = mud slow!!!

People stop buying 5xxx Rpm crap! 10,000RPM 500GB-1TB-2TB HDs should have LONG been out before SSDs. Nope the greedy old-boy industry over shot their mark and now they are scrambling to keep pace with new-blood SSD firms. HAha lets offer the public slower drives and call them "green." How fscking ironic!

 

[v12v12]

ack the double post! My apologies.

 

[dark_lord69]

I can't even fill a 500GB hard drive...
I really don't think I need 5TB.

 

[eddieroolz]

Magnetic drives aren't dead, yet!

 

[v12v12]

I surely wish they would! Mechanical drives have reached the practical limits of mechanical technology. If you'll search, these new(er) drives have a failure rate HIGHER than the older models of years past. There's more bad sectors, more DOAs, more sudden failures, more firmware (eg., Seagate! haha) snafu's, and a myriad of other issues.

There's no NEED for mechanical drive advancement any longer, the real reason is corporate greed. They constantly push to keep these dinosaur drives rolling out until they can eventually switch over to SSD. The problem is the regular players; Hitachi, Samsung, WD, Seagate, Crapstor etc... are ALL behind the newer SSD upstarts BECAUSE of said greed. So while SSD manu's are flying ahead with research and production, the dinosaurs are scrambling to either buy them out or make their own fabs. They figured that SSD was so far off, that it wouldn't matter, so said the hare. Meanwhile the tortoise SSD idealists were slowly and steadily gaining ground. Again referring to my post above, notice the technological gap and illogical jump from 7200 to SSD. Why isn’t there 10Krpm mass storage drives out? Why aren't there plans for this? Suddenly SSDs just show up? WRONG, SSDs have been around for a long time (5yrs+). Instead of trying to combat this with 10Krpm, hybrid .5-1-2TB drives, greedy WD metered out raptors thinking that nothing would ever surpass them on the pro-consumer drive level. Then (lmfao) Seagate tries to invade the market with some POS half-arsed "hybrid" that's not even worth investing in Vs SSD. Unless you NEED a 500GB laptop drive, it's pointless to even invest in the Momentus-XT. TOO BAD idiot Seagate hadn't released this thing 3yrs ago. Then maybe other manu's would have followed suit and pushed the technology to the edge. This would have bridged the gap between 7200/Raptors and SSD. We COULD have had a variable speed 5400-10000rpm, hybrid drives, in the .5-1-2TB+ category. TOO LATE NOW. SSD is the future and any other technological investment in mechanical drives is a HUGE RISK and not worth the gamble. They know it; I know it; now you know it...
__Even the near-line drives cannot match a slower SSD; overt greed is the logical reason, folks. Now making 10Krpm 2-3TB drives isn't practical bc they'd have to completely change their fab process, materials and supply contracts etc... They are LOCKED into their own technological trappings. Hahah! (Major suckage for us too!)

Mechanical drives these days are way overpriced, and are flat out UNRELIABLE. Notice none of these manufacturers will release reliability statistics either. They say "it's bc of competition and the need to maintain company technological secrets,” or to keep an “edge." Bollucks! The AUTO industry is 100x more competitive, more technological, more on the cutting edge, and they are ALL REQUIRED to release said info.

Bah forget it... you grubs don't get it and will continually buy this "green" under-performing, backwards "technological" crap. You see, consumers as a whole are ignorant, impulsive idiots, with no individual power. Consumers have COLLECTIVE power, but since most people are of said ignorance, they’ll continue to support said junk technology by continually buying this crap Vs speaking with their dollars and NOT buying. Taking 10minutes to write a simple email explaining why they chose NOT to buy… By not voicing your concerns, you automatically tell the industry, “yes keep making this crap, bc we’ll keep buying it; you’ll get richer!” People are dumbed-down, ignorant and caught in learned-helplessness. WHY? All you have to do is TELL THEM WTF you want. I write emails to these greedy Neanderthals all the time! They read them, ignore them and mock this 1 little ant. Too bad none of my other comrades aren’t smart and motivated enough to follow suit; they cannot ignore 10000s of consumers!

Enjoy... I'll stick with 7200rpm near-line drives, which at least have 5yr warranties and are designed how consumer drives ought to be. Soon SSD will take over and this rant will be meaningless; I can’t wait, and neither can you huh? HA!