Not much details about what they'll be actually offering, but I hope they continue the IBM heritage and actually get a good chunk of the market, because in the last years of Hitachi they became quite rare in Europe, and thus not price competitive.
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5K4000 Availability
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Me too. I hope they bring out an equivalent to Hitachi's 4TB 5K4000 soon, except with 4 1TB platters (instead of 5 platters). I was hoping to see a 4TB model in the WD Red line, but it seems that WD does not plan to offer anything over 3TB in the Red line this year.
For anyone interested, Fry's has them for $250 right now http://www.frys.com/product/7057131?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
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Limit 1 per household.
FWIW the retail boxed ones at Fry's are far superior to the bare drive OEM ones from places like newegg because the retail box packaging is a lot more resilient to the mishandling and shocks that occur along the way. Over 200 retail boxed Hitachi's purchased from Fry's over the last 5 years and never a bad one.
This is really a bummer, for a few years already I had been planning on standardizing 95% of my storage on this exact drive and selling all my other Hitachi's. Now its just sand slipping through the fingers. <- kinda got a poetic vibe no. Hell I might get a few this weekend just for sentimental reasons even though price per gig is about 30% more than what you can get 3TB's for.
This is really a bummer, for a few years already I had been planning on standardizing 95% of my storage on this exact drive and selling all my other Hitachi's. Now its just sand slipping through the fingers. <- kinda got a poetic vibe no. Hell I might get a few this weekend just for sentimental reasons even though price per gig is about 30% more than what you can get 3TB's for.
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I'm too lazy for that.
My other big concern is RMA replacement. WD has a long history of sending different models as long as they deem them to be equivalent or better. Without a 4tb disk in their lineup, what will they do if they run out of 7K4000's? I wouldn't put it past them to send out two 2tb 7200rpm disks and call it even.
We have already received different drives in replacement of 5k3000's, but never in all my time have I received a drive smaller than the model sent in.
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I saw the thread about the 5k3000 replacements.
Getting two smaller disks is purely my own speculation. I'm wondering out loud what WD will send out when they don't have any 7k4000's left and no WD branded 4tb models to use as equivalents.
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BTW these are 7K4000's, not 5K4000's as in the thread topic. Not that thats a bad thing but for storage/archival of large, infrequently changing files like movies and media, the slower spinners are the better way to go since increased areal densities have narrowed the traditional gap in sequential I/O between 5KRPM and 7KRPM and the cooler running temps of the 5K's are pretty compelling - in my Norco cases the diff has been in the neighborhood of 7-10 degrees when comparing both 5K and 7K versions of 2TB & 3TB Hitachi's. My 5K3000's tend to sit barely above ambient which is awesome.
Interesting how the 5K 4TB has generally been priced higher than the 7K 4TB's (Fry's no exception where its $289 right now) and to an extent this happened with the 3TB Hitachi's, and yet historically the 5KRPM drives have been the cheaper, econo-alternative to their 7KRPM counterparts, but in this case it probably has more to do with supply conditions than popularity. But does make you wonder.
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