News Toshiba launches 24TB hard drives priced up to $649 for NAS systems

[Admin]

Toshiba just launched 24 TB HDDs designed for NAS and private cloud systems for consumers and SMEs.

Toshiba launches 24TB hard drives priced up to $649 for NAS systems : Read more

 

[royalflush1993]

How many platters do they have?

 

[rambo919]

I wonder why they only release enterprise models of high capacity and not consumer one's..... do they think consumers will actually stream everything?

 

[tamalero]

I wonder why they only release enterprise models of high capacity and not consumer one's..... do they think consumers will actually stream everything?

Pretty sure the standard NAS versions are the consumer ones.. and the PRO models are for higher end.
Then you have the ENTERPRISE disks ( EXOS, etc..) ones..

 

[emike09]

What am I missing here? Seagate Exos X24 drives are enterprise class, came out in 2023, readily available, and cost $480. Sure, they have half the write cache, but is 512MB of cache worth $180 more? Any good NAS will have an NVMe cache drive anyways.

 

[rambo919]

Pretty sure the standard NAS versions are the consumer ones.. and the PRO models are for higher end.
Then you have the ENTERPRISE disks ( EXOS, etc..) ones..

Yes but is the firmware properly optimized for desktop use cases? Did the degradation issue go away at some point?

 

[Drunk Ukrainian]

I'm actually drooling. I hope they'll be available in my country soon.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'm actually drooling. I hope they'll be available in my country soon.

Do you consume mechanical hard drives in your diet regularly? LOL
Drooling is physical response to food (not inedible objects).

 

[tamalero]

Yes but is the firmware properly optimized for desktop use cases? Did the degradation issue go away at some point?

wait, degradation?

Are you confusing the nighthawk models (aka for surveillance) with the standard NAS models?
And these are not SSDs to have degradation either.. (and wasn't that Samsung?)

 

[rambo919]

wait, degradation?

Are you confusing the nighthawk models (aka for surveillance) with the standard NAS models?
And these are not SSDs to have degradation either.. (and wasn't that Samsung?)

To my half remembered knowledge NAS models have a problem with standard desktop behavior.... if you don't put them in RAID they develop bad sectors faster because they are over sensitive to something and falsely think data is corrupted when it isn't. They also are over sensitive to the drive being stopped and started because their firmware assumes that they are perpetually powered on.

 

[tamalero]

To my half remembered knowledge NAS models have a problem with standard desktop behavior.... if you don't put them in RAID they develop bad sectors faster because they are over sensitive to something and falsely think data is corrupted when it isn't. They also are over sensitive to the drive being stopped and started because their firmware assumes that they are perpetually powered on.

I only remember that some NAS drives do not get along when packed with more than 8 because of vibration and resonance. Hence why there are PRO drives dedicated to that.