Western Digital Launches 4 TB Nearline HDDs

[noblerabbit]

[citation][nom]bloodypulp[/nom]The hard drive manufacturers are sandbagging innovation, by milking their old technology.They have the capability to produce 5 x 1TB platter drives. 3 x 1TB platter drives have already been available for awhile.[/citation]

The Chinese , Taiwanese, Dynasty heads, have hijacked Northamerican IT marketing, they have been doing this for the last 15 years. Welcome to our new overlords

 

[willard]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]sense 8x5=40scale that up800x5=4000[/citation]
I'm pretty sure everyone here went through third grade algebra and knows how to multiply two numbers.

granted its the 4tb at 1000 per mb, not 1024 so a bit of space is missing... im not explaining that well, i know the why i just cant say the why.

There are 1,048,576 MB per TB, not 1024. You're off by a factor of about a thousand.

 

[dextermat]

I think we are at a point where bigger isn't better.

I think it's time to make more durable hard drive with sizes like that.
Even if it has a good warranty, it doesn't mean it will last and you can access you data.
I found that 500 gb had less failing % than 1 tb < 2 tb so probably 4gb will be worse.

 

[luciferano]

[citation][nom]dextermat[/nom]I think we are at a point where bigger isn't better.I think it's time to make more durable hard drive with sizes like that. Even if it has a good warranty, it doesn't mean it will last and you can access you data. I found that 500 gb had less failing % than 1 tb < 2 tb so probably 4gb will be worse.[/citation]

You're way oversimplifying your math. You can't just compare consumer models to professional/enterprise models and expect similar reliability between them and heck, different brands can have pretty different quality, so there are numerous variables that you didn't consider.

Even ignoring your misrepresentation of reliability, if hard drives don't continue to grow in capacity, SSDs will pass them by, so to not continue growing would be stupid for any hard drive manufacturers that want to still be in business a decade from now.

Also, storage capacity and size aren't the same. All modern 3.5" hard drives are roughly the same size regardless of storage capacity. Please don't confuse terms.

 

[luciferano]

[citation][nom]willard[/nom]I'm pretty sure everyone here went through third grade algebra and knows how to multiply two numbers.There are 1,048,576 MB per TB, not 1024. You're off by a factor of about a thousand.[/citation]

No, there are 1,048,576MiB per TiB. There are 1,000,000MB per TB. MS is just too stupid to use proper terminology with TB and TiB.