[TweakTown] (First?) Consumer 6TB Hard drive from Seagate

octoberasian · Jun 30, 2014

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6473/seagate-desktop-hdd-st6000dx000-6tb-hdd-review/index.html

The ST6000DX000 is Seagate's first consumer 6TB hard drive to hit the market. Like the 6TB Enterprise Capacity v4, the Desktop variant includes the same six-platter design with an increase in areal density up to 643 Gbits/ square-inch. This along with a hefty 128MB of multi-segmented cache and 7200 RPM spindle speed gives the new Desktop HDD 6000GB a performance advantage over the previous 3 and 4TB models.

Currently available in kit form for $299.99 and not found in retail packaging at common e-tailers online at this time.

The only other 6TB hard drive I know of is from Toshiba and is their enterprise model only.

SirMaster · Jun 30, 2014

The 6TB Seagate has been on sale at places like newegg for a few months already.

octoberasian · Jul 1, 2014

SirMaster said:
The 6TB Seagate has been on sale at places like newegg for a few months already.

That I did not know, the consumer or enterprise version?

cesium666 · Jul 1, 2014

I wonder what the reliability is like on these high cap drives. I bought two of the Seagate 4TB externals when they first came out (no one sold 4tb internals, so cracked the cases open), and one of them just died about a month ago - less than 3yrs after release.

R3MF · Jul 1, 2014

brilliant, but how long before they have some real consumer competition...?

SirMaster · Jul 1, 2014

octoberasian said:
That I did not know, the consumer or enterprise version?

Both versions I believe.

Here is the link to the consumer version.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178520

It's been for sale there since at least last April for $299.

octoberasian · Jul 1, 2014

SirMaster said:
Both versions I believe.

Here is the link to the consumer version.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178520

It's been for sale there since at least last April for $299.

And to think, one or two years ago 4TB hard drives were $299 to $399 as well.

SirMaster · Jul 1, 2014

For a better price you can get this 5TB drive for $179 and take the drive out and use it as an internal disk.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1037074-REG/toshiba_hdwc250xk3j1_canvio_black_5tb_3_5.html

bloodypulp · Jul 1, 2014

i'm running 8x of the Toshiba 5TBs, much cooler than my previous Seagate 4TBs.

[TweakTown] (First?) Consumer 6TB Hard drive from Seagate

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