WD Launching 5TB HDDs By End of 2013

[exfileme]

Two 5 TB drives are expected to hit the market by 4Q13, claims two leaked Western Digital slides.

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[vern72]

Darn it! Almost enough to make me upgrade my Core 2 system.

 

[ipwn3r456]

Wow 5TB. So 1TB per platter?

 

[azathoth]

Is this their new system with hermetically sealed drives containing Helium to reduce drag?

If so, I might consider purchasing one so I can finally make FULLY submerged and silent Oil PC. Neat home media server project

 

[Guest]

5TB... damn that's a lot of space but I'd rather have 2 x 3Tb drives so if one fails you don't loose all your data.... but if your data is that important then you'd have those drives in a raid 1 array + regular backups

 

[wannabepro]

Think of all that.. games, Um, I mean 'information' you could store on one of those.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

I'd really like to see a review of the 4TB Caviar Black that just came out.

 

[Guest]

Platter information. please. im dying to know if these are going to have >1tb platters, or just 5 1tb platters

 

[tomfreak]

[citation][nom]Chaoss[/nom]5TB... damn that's a lot of space but I'd rather have 2 x 3Tb drives so if one fails you don't loose all your data.... but if your data is that important then you'd have those drives in a raid 1 array + regular backups[/citation]Agree, data is more important now. I rather have twice the reliability @ same price than twice the size when it is over 1-2TB already.

 

[CaedenV]

In 2011 (before the floods) we were promised 6TB drives before the end of 2012, but between the floods and PMR reliability issues that really hasn't panned out so well.

 

[Guest]

Still insufficient for my pony r34 collection.

 

[Guest]

Being prepared, you bring your laptop with a solar recharge station to kill some time as a 5TB hard drive gives you 8 days of HD porn to watch after crashing your plane on an a deserted island in the middle of the pacific ocean. Replay as much as you want.

 

[assasin32]

[citation][nom]Azathoth[/nom]Is this their new system with hermetically sealed drives containing Helium to reduce drag?If so, I might consider purchasing one so I can finally make FULLY submerged and silent Oil PC. Neat home media server project[/citation]

If you do make sure you toss it in a clear fish tank or something of that nature and put in things like treasure chests and shoot out bubbles (if it will do that in mineral oil I don't know) and fake fish to mess with people who take a quick glance at it.

Would actually look pretty neat too if you added some dim colored led lights or strips with how the water is if you can get it to reflect off bubbles. Bounus points if you mod the PSU to shoot out bubbles.

Dang you now I am thinking about how fun such a project will be.

 

[alidan]

for me i have 5hhds, one almost 8 years old, and still in constant use.

i want to get a 4tb drive so i can move all data to the new hdd, and still have some more room for more data.

and with how warranties are now, i can see a move to a larger hdd every year or so.

 

[notsleep]

i can't wait to fill it up with ps2, wii, and mame chd roms. 😛

 

[A Bad Day]

Format the HDD to 64K sector byte.

Watch the sequential read/write performance soar.

 

[mightymaxio]

I can imagine 16 of them in my fileserver XD

 

[crumbworks]

The more capacity per drive, the better. I'd like to get a 3-bay NAS in RAID 5, and with 10TB of effective storage (well, 9.31 TiB), I'd pretty much be set for the next 8-10 years.

 

[livebriand]

And if it weren't for the lack of competition and the Thailand floods as an excuse, we'd have hit this point a lot sooner.

 

[acyuta]

Will it also be launched at outrageous prices. Hard disk prices are falling too slowly and considering the slowdown, why are they not falling faster.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]Agree, data is more important now. I rather have twice the reliability @ same price than twice the size when it is over 1-2TB already.[/citation]
Data density is good. I'd rather have 2 large capacity drives, 1 being the backup of the other rather than reduced density or RAID.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]ipwn3r456[/nom]Wow 5TB. So 1TB per platter?[/citation]
Yup[citation][nom]Azathoth[/nom]Is this their new system with hermetically sealed drives containing Helium to reduce drag?If so, I might consider purchasing one so I can finally make FULLY submerged and silent Oil PC. Neat home media server project[/citation]

No probably not. I think the helium filled drives are just for the Enterprise (not the NCC-1701-D), not consumer drives so consumer drives will still be limited to 5 platters. So 1TB/platter. I'd hope they could make a 5TB drive with 5 or less platters by Q4 2013 otherwise that would be pretty pathetic! Especially since 1TB/platter 7200RPM 1TB drives have been out for months. Seems like there is a crazy manufacturing yield issue.
Right now all 4TB drive on the market use 5x800GB/platter including the new Caviar Black. Kind of sad how density increases have come down to a crawl. Hopefully HAMR will be widely implemented soon and growth will ramp up again. I think the industry is going with HAMR right now, not Shingled Magnetic Recording or bit patterning.

 

[Cons29]

i haven't looked into benchies of mechanical hdd's. i have a rather old ssd and 2 mechanical ones. just a curious question, is there a difference in performance between sata2 and sata3 when using mechanical hard drives?

 

[danwat1234]

i haven't looked into benchies of mechanical hdd's. i have a rather old ssd and 2 mechanical ones. just a curious question, is there a difference in performance between sata2 and sata3 when using mechanical hard drives?

Not really. Only for very brief burst speeds. Hybrid drives, especially future hybrid drives can definitely take advantage of SATA 3.
Purely mechanical (with a tiny buffer) drives will take a few more years before getting close to saturating the SATA 2 bus under ideal (linear read/write) operations.

Right now the max is around 170MB/s for consumer drives so until it increases another 100MB/s there is no bottleneck, and this is only ideal. With real world multitasking you can divide the number by 3 or more.

I'm sure they'll all have SATA 3 controllers on them well before they start to get bottlenecked by SATA 2.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Cons29[/nom]i haven't looked into benchies of mechanical hdd's. i have a rather old ssd and 2 mechanical ones. just a curious question, is there a difference in performance between sata2 and sata3 when using mechanical hard drives?[/citation]

The SATA versions isn't a big deal for general hard drive usage (only the cache can make use of it, not the actual platters because the platters just aren't fast enough). However, newer hard drives with higher dnesity and such tend to get newer SATA versions, so a SATA3 7.2KRPM hard drive can beat a SATA2 7.2KRPM hard drive significantly, just not because of the SATA version difference.