Decent price on the 10TB, not the lowest ever but not far out. Not SMR. Appears to have limit 3 per customer.
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Imma gonna have to buy a second tower PC just to put more drives in. Probably should just buy a NAS, but isn't a whole new computer more handy? Can use it for gaming nights and stuff.
Define 7 XL would suit you.
I use a Define R6 for my Gaming PC/Plex build currently got a 10TB and 2 12TB' with plenty of room for further upgrades.
Doesn’t define 7 only comes with 6 hdd cage? Where can you buy more cage to host more drives?
I wonder how much noise a desktop with 18 HDDs in it would make.
@jace88: When all six of my current drives spin up at the same time it sounds like some kind of scary machine from a science fiction movie, like a the terminators arm powering up to punch a hole through your door.
Yeah but that doesn't have a Seagate Barracuda Pro 10TB 7200rpm 3.5" HDD in it (or maybe an Exos 10TB). Those drives in the WD Elements are only slower 5400rpm. That's if you're into shucking and putting it in a desktop PC for say a Steam gaming drive. I put my Barracuda Pro 10TB 3.5" HDD (shucked from a Seagate Backup Plus 10GB enclosure) in a desktop PC and is used for Steam games. It's very fast for a HDD.
But the hard drive in the WD Elements would be better if you're into NAS. Those WD white label helium hard drives in it are designed with NAS in mind.
I wouldn't buy a slow HDD like that for gaming at all these days personally.
With next gen consoles featuring SSD's new games will take advantage of that which will ofc mean they will be better for SSD's on PC as well.
Yeah i don't see how an SSD is going to hold my 4TB+ and getting larger Steam game library. SSD just doesn't have the storage capacity for such a gaming system. That's what modern large hard drives are for.
Until some day you can get say 10TB SSD drives. Well it's no good to me because they just aren't big enough. You often get games near over 100GB in size alone too. Multiple that by multiple of those games and you can see how SSD just won't cut it at the moment.
@kaal: No. But i like to have all the games installed and ready to use to select any game i want at any time i want instead of having to wait hours for it to download before i can even get to play. And then having to uninstall it just to gather space to install another game and then wait potentially hours yet again. SSD currently just aren't big enough to have a such a large game library. It's only good if you have a few large games and that's it.
Try installing say a few 150GB games and you'll soon see a 1TB SSD is out of space. So yeah i'd rather wait those seconds more for a game to load off the HDD then be stuck with not enough space from an SSD to select any game i want to load from at any time from my entire game library. Once the game is running into RAM you don't notice any difference.
One of these Seagate Barracuda Pro 10TB HDD is really good for a large Steam game library for such uses as such as i said. Say one where even a 2TB SSD just doesn't have the storage capacity.
@hollykryten: You tell them.
Sometimes I feel like people ask stupid questions without thinking the answers through.
But everyone needs to learn someday.
@hollykryten: with access to gigabit internet it's easier to upgrade to gigabit for a few dollars extra for the day and download whatever games then downgrade to 100/20 at the end of the day when im done.
I also wouldn't even try to download all of my 400 steam games at once, so my two 1TB ssd's and a 2tb hdd for less important games is perfect for the moment SSD's are getting cheaper all the time, wont be long before 4TB+ SSD's are cheap enough for me to buy.
@Axelstrife: Not on my FTTN it isn't that's impossible.
Re downloading games is not practical for those on FTTN.
@hollykryten: I have 4 x 1tb ssds in a raid 0 array. It's not uncommon. 5 x 2tb ssds would achieve your 10tb requirement.
@bargainshooter: RAID 0 raises your chances of a catastrophic failure way higher. That's five times the chance of a total data failure. Also 5 x 2TB 2.5" SSD would set you back about $1,400. No one in their right mind would pay that much for 10TB of storage. When you could have got a 10TB HDD for $265 from this deal. You could have got 50TB of HDD storage for under $1,400.
@hollykryten: Unless, of course, you need fast storage, as I do… I beg to differ with your comment on catastrophic failure. A large, single drive has just as much chance of failure as one drive in a RAID 0 array and that single drive cannot be partially replaced (as a RAID drive can be). You mitigate by using slower backup drives. This is standard procedure for video editing rigs. But my comment was in response to your "SSD just doesn't have the storage capacity for such a gaming system".
@bargainshooter: You can't replace any drive in a RAID 0 array without total data loss. If one drive completely breaks, the whole array is lost and so all data is lost. There is no parity recovery with RAID 0. It's a very risky option with multiple drives. The more drives in a RAID 0 array means the higher chance of one of them may end up being faulty and resulting in total data loss. There's no parity array recovery.
@hollykryten: Sure total data loss as in a single large drive failing. However, you are incorrect about drive replacement - the faulty drive can be replaced and the RAID array rebuilt. That's what the backup is for. A large single drive failing has the same data loss predicament. Alternatively, if you need 24/7 you can use a RAID 10 array but that's not necessary for my work.
@bargainshooter: You were referring to those 5 x 2TB SSD in RAID 0. And it's a fact that an RAID 0 array can not be rebuilt.
@hollykryten: You're getting caught up in semantics or hung up on the terminology. Online rebuild without backup no. Offline restore via backup yes. You replace the faulty drive and restore. How the rebuild occurs shouldn't matter as both implementations require offline restore from backup. If you need online rebuild, go with a RAID 10 array.
14tb for sub $300 is the benchmark now….
waiting for another deal to get a few more 14tbs
Waiting for the 16TBs to drop below $400.
Unfreeze me when 20TB is $200.
@AustriaBargain: Mine's a bit more realistic :-)
The 16TB were actually $385 this year and I missed out.
@gadgetguy: Well check on the upcoming Black Friday sale. It might go on sale like that again on a lightning sale from Amazon AU.
I am using a shucked 14TB WD element from amazon UK,very happy,no noise.
Price?
https://www.amazon.com.au/Elements-Desktop-External-Hard-Dri…
12TB WD Elements $294.90
Better price per TB and it's WD