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Toshiba X300 6TB Desktop 3.5" SATA Hard Drive US $144.52 (~AU $192.30) Delivered @ Amazon
Toshiba X300 6TB Desktop 3.5" SATA Hard Drive US $144.52 (~AU $192.30) Delivered @ Amazon
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This is an internal drive.
this is an internal drive. no shucking and warranty left intact, arguably better brand, faster drive. but smaller capacity.
I don't think Toshiba is better than Seagate for HDDs.
Probably because you only hear of seagate more often than toshiba.
Backblaze report annual statistics of hard drive reliability and failure rates, ranking order of most reliable to least is Hitachi, HGST, Toshiba, seagate & WD contending for the bottom. More info can be found here@nairdajun: Why I didn't get notified for this comment I'll never know…
Wow, the stats can't lie. That's impressive for Toshiba then. Seagates are great regardless though.
You quite literally just contradicted yourself two sentences from each other.
Wow, the stats can't lie.
and
Seagates are great regardless though.
Great on what merit?
I would argue it's superior in every way except of course capacity.
In saying that I wouldn't personally be buying <8TB hard drives in 2018 so I'll keep watching this space. I buy in even denominators, 2TB, 4TB… I'm kinda hoping I can keep stretching things until 12TB becomes a thing (can even sell a NAS to offset the upgrade costs) but I may run out of air waiting.
But 12TB doesn't fit in your sequence.
2, 4, 8, … 16TB.Beat me to it!
Damn it! Beaten by my own logic.
Hurry up 16TB!
What's the resoning behind 8gb+ drives?
Do you like the gb/$ ratio or some other reason
That's a good reason. Shucking a wd 'red' for $250 is the way to go. But I'm finding my things just fit into multiples of 4tb
I just like to double (or more) my capacity on each upgrade cycle, but yes gb/$ play a big part too. I went from 2TB -> 4TB so I would rather not use anything less than 8TB as it's not cheap upgrading a bunch of drives and building a hybrid RAID6 needing 2 more for redundancy, so it's an upgrade I like to get many long years out of. 6TB doesn't seem worth it. 8TB would be the ideal but with greater capacities coming out and 10TB in particular coming down, it might be realistic to wait for that. >12TB I expect will remain unreasonably expensive for the next 2-3 years. And I won't mind buying 8TB drives if 10TB never reach a sweet spot as either option now moves me into massive future headroom.
Same.
I caved and got a 10tb to compile three drives into one last night, but what i really wanted was to wait until 12tb
I wouldn't personally be buying <8TB hard drives in 2018
Why? Do you not know how to use small files or something? "It's 2018"
I used the word personally, it's just my preference.
@Click_It: So what does the current year have to do with your preference?
Your reasoning does nothing to aid this issue.
Note the short 2-year warranty, which is probably not valid in Australia anyway. You'll be relying on Amazon for DoA and no support beyond that.
Some drives are for archive, desktop, NAS or surveillance ….. wrong drive in wrong application can reduce longevity e.g archive drive for NAS use.
Sounds like you work in Marketing…
no work in IT.
desktop drives park heads quick to save power so frequent access kills the head mechanics, nas drives take longer to park heads bu use more power, etc,etc.
it’s is why people used to buy WD green and reflash firmware so they would last longer if used for NAS.archive drives have shortest life if hammered, designed more for backups .
they also alter spin speeds between applications to trade off power consumption vs speed.
So basically, NAS drives are better overall for frequent use?? Can you suggest a brand?
Also, surveillance drives are not designed to be used like desktop drives. Had a mate find out the hard way less than 12 months using it, had constant corrupt sectors due to lack of IOPS and low random write speeds.
Surveillance drives are designed to have more constant write speeds with the occasional (slow) read.
Which one is this for?
I would probably need one just for desktop and media. Maybe a NAS. Don't look I will need a surveillance drive anytime soon unless a hot neighbour moves in anytime soon haha lol
frys were selling these for 113 in the states the other day so Amazon can and have done these for a lot less.
When did Amazon have this drive for less? CamelX3 shows this is the lowest ever Amazon price.
That's not Amazon though. petry wrote "Amazon (can and) have done these for a lot less." When have Amazon done these for less?
camels not perfect and amzon have hiked all their Toshiba drives since last year.
the 5tb was $113 on amazon a couple of weeks ago though…. the 4tb was 106 last year I think, and I thought the 6tb was just under 130 once.
Something tells me this model will come down to <150$ at the end of this year. I will buy it then.
8TB should be become the standard drive size soon. 6TB will be a bargain buy and who knows what's going to happen with 4TB, it should have been cheaper years ago.
Its actually cheaper now. $125US delivered
yeah just like I said and look what you get for tipping people off….
what is the benefit of buying this one over this Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive US $150.32 Delivered (~AU $199.52) Delivered @ Amazon US