Friday, December 9th 2011
4 TB Hitachi Desktop Hard Drive Starts Selling in Japan
While the hard drive industry as a whole continues to be affected by the Thailand floods, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) is ending 2011 on a high note by starting shipments of its first 4 TB 3.5-inch HDD. Codenamed HDS5C4040ALE630 and likely part of the Deskstar 5K (we're guessing 5K4000) series, the 4TB drive has yet to be announced by Hitachi but it can be found on sale in Japan, priced at 26,800 yen (~ US $ 345 / 259 Euro).
Hitachi's 4 TB hard drive has 32 MB of buffer memory, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface and makes use of the CoolSpin technology, which means its (likely four) platters operate at around 5900 RPM. No word yet on a 7200 RPM version but it's probably in the cards for 2012.
Source:
Akiba PC Watch
Hitachi's 4 TB hard drive has 32 MB of buffer memory, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface and makes use of the CoolSpin technology, which means its (likely four) platters operate at around 5900 RPM. No word yet on a 7200 RPM version but it's probably in the cards for 2012.
50 Comments on 4 TB Hitachi Desktop Hard Drive Starts Selling in Japan
IBM/Hitachi DeathStar ... It doesn't obliterate planets though, it obliterates itself (and your data along with it).
It seems like HDD reliability is at an all-time low right now. Seems like stuff is failing way more often now.
On the flipside I would be happy to pay more $ for reliability, but even the "reliable" stuff turns out to be crap with mostly marketing fluff.
Shame that Disk on Modules (DOM) are so expensive and still a bit S.L.O.W. But for 24/7 fileserver, probably ok.
Or you put the 4TB in your backup system... to back up your various PCs and laptops that have smaller HDDs.
To reduce the burden of backups, I now have an Atom based fileserver running RAID mirror on two big identical drives. And I keep my desktop/laptop with smaller HDDs/SSDs and try to file off as much as I can to the fileserver.
It's not a perfect system... I'm not actually backing up the desktop or laptop, but I can't spend my life running backups all the time.
The thing that stops most people filing off to a fileserver is the OVERHEAD TIME of organising your files. etc. But actually, if you get into the discipline, you can get used to it.
I see you have 1 2TB drive, do you have important data on that and if so where is it backed up to?
I don't back up all my data, my pictures however I do as they are more important than any games/movies music etc and they are backed up to another drive as well as the cloud for peace of mind.
I assume that's a typical price for them(i dont really know)?? Even at current escilated hdd prices that is more than a 2tb hdd will cost you
"ultrium" tapes, whatever they are, seem quite competetive. But surely they are slower than a hdd?? and still quite small?? Biggest I can find is 400 gb compressed??
I'm sure they have their place, but at home i'd rather just buy a second hdd for backup if needed
The speed on LTO4 is around 120MB/s on LTO5 it's even higher due to higher density.
Totally agree that for home use you don't need anything special, a second HDD for critical data will be just fine.
But I still prefer to backup to tapes, it may be slow on the old tape drive I have, but at least the data is safe ;)
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BACK OT: This news got me wondering about Moore's law applied to HDD's. And the fact that it just doesn't seem to apply...
This computer sported a 400MHz Celeron. Compared to todays silicon cookies, its like Australopeticus vs. Homo Sapiens. Basically the same but so much evolved.