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These are the new Shingled Magnetic Recording drives, designed for storage:
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...led-hard-drives-now-shipping-8tb-for-just-260
Pre-order price on B&H is $259 with free expedited shipping, due out in one month (March 3rd)
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc..._8tb_sata.html
The USB 3.0 version is available now for $285 with free Prime shipping:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup...dp/B00R45V3SW/
Basic specs:
* 5900 RPM
* 128MB Cache
* Average R/W 150 MB/sec (190 MB/sec max)
* 3-year warranty
* 800k-hour MTBF
* Designed for 24/7 use with a rated workload of 180TB per year
Pretty nutty that you can get that kind of storage in a singe drive for under three hundred bucks! I'm not quite sure what it formats out to (RaidCalc says 7.45TB), but you should lose at least 500 gigs in formatting (crazy!). 10TB drives are also rumored to ship later this year, although they may be dependent on HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology being released:
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...hard-drives-with-10tb-and-hamr-on-the-horizon
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...led-hard-drives-now-shipping-8tb-for-just-260
Pre-order price on B&H is $259 with free expedited shipping, due out in one month (March 3rd)
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc..._8tb_sata.html
The USB 3.0 version is available now for $285 with free Prime shipping:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup...dp/B00R45V3SW/
Basic specs:
* 5900 RPM
* 128MB Cache
* Average R/W 150 MB/sec (190 MB/sec max)
* 3-year warranty
* 800k-hour MTBF
* Designed for 24/7 use with a rated workload of 180TB per year
Pretty nutty that you can get that kind of storage in a singe drive for under three hundred bucks! I'm not quite sure what it formats out to (RaidCalc says 7.45TB), but you should lose at least 500 gigs in formatting (crazy!). 10TB drives are also rumored to ship later this year, although they may be dependent on HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology being released:
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...hard-drives-with-10tb-and-hamr-on-the-horizon