6TB Hard Drive Round-Up

[HardOCP News]

The crew at HotHardware have rounded up a handful of 6TB hard drives and put them to the test today.

Though Hitachi chose to take a unique approach with Helium, both Seagate and WD have taken a more traditional route by packing more bits per platter and more platters into their drive enclosures, so the three drives we are looking at in this roundup are similar in their construction — with no fancy gases or anything like that.

 

[nightanole]

2 WD and seagate?

Thats like a coffee roundup of folgers and maxwell house.

 

[drescherjm]

delete

 

[Stoly]

Since SSDs are now very affordable, speed no longer matters with HDDs, only capacity, reliability and power draw

 

[ep0x73]

Incomplete.....no RED pro, HGST NAS or even purple for the hell of it

 

[drescherjm]

There is also a Toshiba enterprise 6TB and the HGST He6

 

[rive22]

Since SSDs are now very affordable, speed no longer matters with HDDs, only capacity, reliability and power draw

Then you won't mind if we slow access times down to 400ms and 10MBps transfer rates. You know, since the world of computing revolves around you and all.

 

[nutzo]

I'll stick with 4TB drives for now. They have been out just long enough to work out the worse of the kinks, and the price per TB is less.

 

[gamer0622]

Man i remember wheb 80gb was a lot

 

[drescherjm]

My parents paid over $800 US for an 80 MB hard drive that came standard with a list of bad blocks. Back then I thought I would never outgrow that..

 

[Pultzar]

My parents paid over $800 US for an 80 MB hard drive that came standard with a list of bad blocks. Back then I thought I would never outgrow that..

We had a 40MB. Eventually Sierra games were taking up all of the space

 

[ep0x73]

Ha, still have a 60GB IBM deathstar still working.

Smallest drive ever was a 1MB that came with my IBM, later updated to a 7G maxtor for a really stupid price at Staples.

 

[WangChung]

2 WD and seagate?

Thats like a coffee roundup of folgers and maxwell house.

Since I can't "like" or "thank" this post, I will QFT for the early morning chuckles it provided.

 

[Bigdady92]

The hard drives they reviewed were really odd.

1 Enterprise Drive
2 'Home' user drives

I'd rather they flip over to all of one class or another. The editor must have gotten a bunch of drives for free and said "Fuck it, do a write up of these 3, gotta get paid somehow."

 

[tsrtg]

Ancient selection of drives. And no mention of any HGST drives even in the conclusion.

 

[Aesma]

I'll stick with 4TB drives for now. They have been out just long enough to work out the worse of the kinks, and the price per TB is less.

I've been buying 4TB drives for more than a year now (about 1 per month) and it's the last one that I bought that was DOA.

I've just bought my first 6TB (WD red) and so far so good, seeing that 5,45TB number in the explorer for just one drive is a strange feeling.

 

[Britgeezer]

Got my WD 6TB Red for Xmas, so far so good.