Lacie Begins Shipping First External 5TB Hard Drive

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Need a bigger and better external storage solution? Lacie has your back with the introduction of its 5TB hard drive. The 7200-rpm drive can go up to a 5-bay, 25TB storage option.

The device offers speeds up to 785MB/s, and is being hawked towards video professionals.
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video professionals? so that's the modern politically correct term for porn hoarders now?


Woohoo! I'm a professional!
 
Why are they always external drives first, and worse it seems they charge MORE for just the bare drive than with an enclosure... Full. Retard.
 
How about they fix the 4TB drive reliability problems before moving on to 5TB. Is that too much to ask?
 
Ducman69 said:
Why are they always external drives first, and worse it seems they charge MORE for just the bare drive than with an enclosure... Full. Retard.
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Sata III had a bandwidth limit of 600MB/s. The Drive offers up to 785MB/s. A high-performance drive like this would be wasted on mass storage. A drive like this will make sharing raw video files between workstations much easier. Not to mention, making external backups will no longer take ages.
 
LastQuestion said:
Sata III had a bandwidth limit of 600MB/s. The Drive offers up to 785MB/s. A high-performance drive like this would be wasted on mass storage. A drive like this will make sharing raw video files between workstations much easier. Not to mention, making external backups will no longer take ages.
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wut? 785MB is the read speed off of all 5 disks in RAID 5 thanks to Thunderbolt. A single disk will work with SATA just fine.
 
LastQuestion said:
Sata III had a bandwidth limit of 600MB/s. The Drive offers up to 785MB/s. A high-performance drive like this would be wasted on mass storage. A drive like this will make sharing raw video files between workstations much easier. Not to mention, making external backups will no longer take ages.
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I am guessing an enterprise SSD's in 2021, will hit 5TB w/785MB/s :D
 
Hmm, I'm more interested in where the drive itself came from. Is it a sup'ed up 4TB drive or a neutered variant of the 6TB helium drives?

And why have we still not seen bare drives offered to the public yet? Is there really that big of a demand in the track all the publics actions err, I mean "cloud computing"?
 
westrock2000 said:
Hmm, I'm more interested in where the drive itself came from. Is it a sup'ed up 4TB drive or a neutered variant of the 6TB helium drives?

And why have we still not seen bare drives offered to the public yet? Is there really that big of a demand in the track all the publics actions err, I mean "cloud computing"?
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They're Seagate 5TB hard drives, not the Toshiba 5TB enterprise drive that was announced recently.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7290/seagate-to-ship-5tb-hdd-in-2014-using-shingled-magnetic-recording
 
Good news if only that means the Seagate 5TB will be out soon which will push 4 and 3 down in price,

WD better get on the ball....
 
ep0x73 said:
Good news if only that means the Seagate 5TB will be out soon which will push 4 and 3 down in price,

WD better get on the ball....
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And what are you basing the assumption on that a 4TB will "push 4 and 3 down in price"?
 
Ducman69 said:
Why are they always external drives first, and worse it seems they charge MORE for just the bare drive than with an enclosure... Full. Retard.
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Because they sell more externals than internals world wide. Not sure how thats retarded.
 
Yeah now my drive controller can die after 90 days and destroy all my data just like their shitty Big Disks. God awful power supplies , china GARBAGE.
 
DPI said:
What "4TB drive reliability" problems? You have a link?
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I mean the failure rate of 4TB drives. I use a lot of Western Digital 4TB drives at my work, and a lot of them end up DOA. Of the ones that do work initially, some end up failing in a month or two. I'd say for every 10 about 8 make it past two months in my experience.
 
Are they green and red or enterprise SE/RE?
Using drives in an application not meant for them is what leads to a higher failure rate.

That said 4TB drives are either 4 or 5 platter, more parts moving, more chances for failure.
 
Why aren't there hard drives with unlimited space yet?
 
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