News WD Red Pro 26TB hits the market for $569 — new capacity enables portable 208TB RAID solution for $8,299

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Western Digital reveals ultimate hard drive-based storage solutions for creative professionals and 26TB hard drives for NAS.

WD Red Pro 26TB hits the market for $569 — new capacity enables portable 208TB RAID solution for $8,299 : Read more

 

[lmcnabney]

Well over 2 cents per GB. At this rate NAND will be cheaper in a couple years.

 

[Shiznizzle]

Well over 2 cents per GB. At this rate NAND will be cheaper in a couple years.

That stuff degrades and has a shelf life. Also the info stored on it degrades in a year if not plugged in unlike spinning platters.

With HDD even if the motor fails that info is said. Try fixing a chip or getting into off of it when it fails.

 

[leclod]

Well over 2 cents per GB. At this rate NAND will be cheaper in a couple years.

That is a launch price of a high end HDD. There are way cheaper deals out there.
And in a couple years price will have settled too.
But 11 platters !

 

[leclod]

With HDD even if the motor fails that info is said.

I once had an aunt try to restore the data from such a broken drive.
First it was very expensive.
Second she got in trouble about copyrights.
Who fills an HDD with strictly legally owned data ?

 

[nrdwka]

I once had an aunt try to restore the data from such a broken drive.
First it was very expensive.
Second she got in trouble about copyrights.
Who fills an HDD with strictly legally owned data ?

who do not not encrypted such backup? Encrypted container still perfectly restorable

 

[lmcnabney]

That stuff degrades and has a shelf life. Also the info stored on it degrades in a year if not plugged in unlike spinning platters.

With HDD even if the motor fails that info is said. Try fixing a chip or getting into off of it when it fails.

The data is pretty clear that NAND lasts longer than spinning rust. NAND is also a couple orders of magnitude faster. I'm not sure where you get the idea that NAND has to be plugged in regularly. My daughter took an old 500GB external SSD off to college. It has been in a drawer for over five years and she called to ask what to do with all of the files that were still on it. It worked fine and is about a decade old now. Data recovery for NAND is just different than HDD, but it is available.

 

[lmcnabney]

That is a launch price of a high end HDD. There are way cheaper deals out there.
And in a couple years price will have settled too.
But 11 platters !

The cheapest storage you can buy (new) now is over 1.6 cents per GB. It has gotten as low as 1.2, but that was a while ago. The HDD market is just a cash cow. No competition to drive down prices so the industry is just milking it for as long as they can before they join floppy disks in the dustbin of history.

 

[leclod]

The cheapest storage you can buy (new) now is over 1.6 cents per GB.

I just checked on pcpartpicker, cheapest SSD seems to be at 4.4 cents per GB.

And the HDD prices are going down while some grown men playing war are hiking up all prices (I've never seen as low as 1.2 and I do watch).