Hitachi Confirms 4TB 3.5-inch HDD, Shipping Now
Hitachi has officially confirmed two new models of 4TB hard drives in the form of the the Deskstar 5K4000 Internal Hard Drive Kit and the Touro Desk External Hard Drive.
The 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 is a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 32MB cache buffer and Hitachi's CoolSpin power-management technology. Combined with Hitachi's other power-management tools, CoolSpin offers up to a 28-percent idle power savings over the company's Deskstar 7K3000 7200 RPM drives and an idle acoustic level of 2.5 bels. The 5K4000 also uses Hitachi's Advanced Format technology, which increases the sector size on the hard disk drive from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes for increased capacities and improved error correction capabilities.
The new 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 Hard Drive Retail Kit is currently shipping in limited quantities to online and retail stores with a suggested retail price of $399.99. Hitachi will be shipping the Deskstar 5K4000 (bare drives and bulk pack) to OEMs, distributors and channel partners worldwide in Q1 2012.
The external solution, the Hitachi Touro Desk External Drive is a USB 3.0 storage solution with a Deskstar 5K4000 HDD under the hood and is both Mac and PC compatible. It comes bundled with 3GB of cloud storage for free from HitachiBackup.com and will be available in January for approximately $420.
Not a good deal, but impressive... I can wait to see where we can go.
Eventually, we will need a new form of storage to take over at one time. But I got absolutely no clue what it could be...
Well $400 wouldn't be bad here anyway.
Agree. $400 is ok for the current market, with the Thailand flood and shortage of HDD. Especially the largest capacity HDD on the market usually cost more per GB.
Yeah maybe BEFORE the Thailand flood. I saw 5400 RPM 2TB drives at that price.
I can't wait until 3TB and 4TB hard drives come with new computers with the OS installed on them. Either that, or companies where you can build your own computer allow you to use a larger hard drive as your main hard drive. Currently, 3TB hard drives can only be chosen for data storage, not you main drive (going from CyberPowerPC.com). Actually, I just checked, they weren't offering 3TB drives (let alone 4TB drive) on the configurator.
I'm also going to add some words without doing any thinking whatsoever.
My missus is NOT a professional photographer, but has a nice 8MP Canon EOS 350D anyway, we take pictures of holidays, special occasions, the kids, days out, birthdays, DIY work, moving house, etc etc etc. We have almost 2TB of pictures.
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Now think how many pictures someone who is a serious photographer might have or is a professional photographer
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Then, only then, decide if a 4TB drive would be of any use in a corporate server farm or not
As do i, but it takes some time for the computer to spin up and sift through 3x7200 rpm drives and 7TB full from 4.5gb/movie DVD Rips. I quickly dumped the WD Green drive after experiencing the slow. But i do appreciate the sector sizes, i have all my large movie storage drives as large as they can go
You don't 'have' the pictures, you only have them until the drive inevitably crashes. If you are trying to keep pictures, you upload them to a storage service (e.g. flicker, etc.)
In any case, thanks for the example. I didn't think about that one. Do you really have, even assuming a picture size of 5MB/picture size with lossless compression, 400,000 pictures? Almost half a million pictures?
Assuming 12 waking hours in a day, and you take pictures on weekends and 3 weeks of vacation a year (104 + 15 = 119 days a year), that means you're taking a picture every 2 minutes for the last 10 years. I believe you are mixed up about the pictures. Video is another thing. Video adds up fast.
Post a link for 2TB for $69.