Review WD Gold 24TB HDD review: The highest capacity hard drive you can buy right now

[DSzymborski]

Why are optinand and armorcache not brought down to smaller capacities like 8TB

These types of features are usually mainly in the higher-end segment of HDD lines because the people and businesses buying those hard drives are less price-conscious.

 

[endocine]

These types of features are usually mainly in the higher-end segment of HDD lines because the people and businesses buying those hard drives are less price-conscious.

True but GOLD is marketed as an enterprise drive, basically a HGST with a WD label. Maybe have an optinand/armourcache drive option for the same capacity SKU.

 

[subspruce]

Or if the time is ripe, a super storage based on SSD. No noise, barely power and far better reliability.

Yeah ExaDrive DC100 blows these in storage density out of the water.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Jeez... and here I thought that my 18TB WD Red Pro was huge.....

 

[einheriar]

It is strange that we are stuck with 7200RPM drives for higher capacities for a long time... the research is focused on capacity and not IOPS for HDD 10K RPM and 15K RPM exist for a long time as well but no one is researching incresing the capacity of such drives.

I assume that increasing rpm on a HD is not worth the increase in power usage and lower MBTF. Companies use large HDs in large raid setups.. the parallellism of these comensate for the speed, besides that these disks are used in tiered NAS systems, these tiered systems often have constandly used info in the systems DDRram top tier , and often used data in SSD second tier and the bulk of the data in HDD slowest tier.
The fast needed info isthus coming from ram or ssd..