They are $300 now. Glad I grabbed mine for $140+tax.
Yes, both models. Most likely the usual $200 sale will be on and off.
Did you pull the drive for internal use after testing it?
They are $300 now. Glad I grabbed mine for $140+tax.
Yes, both models. Most likely the usual $200 sale will be on and off.
Did you pull the drive for internal use after testing it?
They are back to $160 now.No. I needed another external unit anyways. If they drop to $140'ish again I'll buy another and use the bare drive in my desktop.
I might spring for a 7200rpm 8TB drive with a fair helping of cache on the eventual scale, for now my 4TB seems to be holding out reasonably well. I'm willing to pay a little more for a drive that doesn't cause my games to stutter trying to stream in textures. All my stuff's installed and my digital hoarding is slowing a bit, I shouldn't need more storage until ~June or so.
At some point maybe deleting some of the crap would be a good idea.
Well, when your internet is as slow as mine is...
Well, when your internet is as slow as mine is, holding onto stuff tends to be a good thing. I hold onto stuff that I know I'll need again, don't know if I will or won't (but hold onto anyway because it's a large download), and sometimes even when I know I won't need it again just because it's hard to find and maybe it could help someone. Downloads take a painfully long time for me, my Steam queue for instance has been constantly downloading stuff for months on end -- yes, literal, consecutive months, and it's still not done though I am in the home stretch, so to speak -- and I don't want to have to wait for all that junk to download again should something go belly-up.
Your school doesn't have decent internet?
I figured this was common knowledge, but the spring semester of 2017 ended awfully for me and I ended up having to take some time off to financially regroup.
What was common knowledge? Schools having decent Internet or you stopping school? The former maybe, the latter, not really.
If you mentioned it here I obviously forgot, I apologize. I'm pushing half a century years old now and tend to forget things.
I could have sworn I said something about it. Maybe I didn't. In any case, yes, I did end up taking a break from school. Emphasis is because I very much intend to go back, I just can't afford to at the moment.
I could have sworn I said something about it. Maybe I didn't. In any case, yes, I did end up taking a break from school. Emphasis is because I very much intend to go back, I just can't afford to at the moment.
You mentioned it in the Something Random thread IIRC, but it is almost a year later. You are going back in the fall?
Get your certs. Get entry level IT job. Work your way up. Then in a few years if you want to get into management get your CS B.S. degree.
Back on sale for $150.
I think that's it.So who's left making spinning disks anymore? WDC, Seagate, Toshiba?
Thread necro.
HGST has been taken over by WD. I should have bought that 8 TB from B&H last year.
So what the "quality" 8 TB HDD these days? Is 8 TB still the sweet spot size/cost wise? THXs.
Thread necro.
HGST has been taken over by WD. I should have bought that 8 TB from B&H last year.
So what the "quality" 8 TB HDD these days? Is 8 TB still the sweet spot size/cost wise? THXs.
Like others have mentioned, the WDC takeover of HGST was a while ago (2012 I believe). If you can find a good deal on the 8TB HGST NAS 7200RPM I'd still recommend them. I've had very good luck with all my HGST drives over the years. I haven't been following prices lately to know which size is the best price/space ratio.
You can pore over WD financials to see where the redundancies were, but the merger was a long time ago. Even before the merger the WD and Hitachi buildings were literally right next to each other in Thailand for example. All the drives have been made by WD for years now. You need to get over any negative history with WD or buy Seagate if unable.
This is one of those times I really miss Merc. I'd love to read whatever witty comments he might write regarding WD.You need to get over any negative history with WD or buy Seagate if unable.
Don't know anything about quality but 5400 or 5900 RPM 8 TB seems to be the sweet spot in terms of cost per TB. I don't see much point spending more for 7200 RPM when the decrease in access times is marginal, and 8 TB will most likely be used for bulk storage.Thread necro.
HGST has been taken over by WD. I should have bought that 8 TB from B&H last year.
So what the "quality" 8 TB HDD these days? Is 8 TB still the sweet spot size/cost wise? THXs.
This is one of those times I really miss Merc. I'd love to read whatever witty comments he might write regarding WD.
Don't know anything about quality but 5400 or 5900 RPM 8 TB seems to be the sweet spot in terms of cost per TB. I don't see much point spending more for 7200 RPM when the decrease in access times is marginal, and 8 TB will most likely be used for bulk storage.
In my opinion, given the high bit density, nothing with a spinning disk is reliable these days. Unless you really need the space you're better off with SSD. 1 TB seems to be the sweet spot for price per TB for SSDs nowadays. Maybe wait a bit for the price to come down a little more, and the 2TB and 4TB models to follow suit.
Obviously if you need that much storage SSDs will cost many thousands more. I couldn't imagine filling up 8TB, never mind the amount of storage you have. For the masses who can probably get by with 1 TB or less, SSDs are the best solution.SSD is still expensive for a reasonable quantity of storage.
I have 12x10TB of HDDs in my main NaSD, 13x8TB in the secondary, and a bunch of extra arrays off in the central zone.
I don't even know how to replace them with SSDs other than a homemade server or maybe the FS3017.
A few years ago the sweet spot for cost was the 8TB helium WD RED drive contained in the WD Easystorage unit. They were on sale every week or three. 4-5 of the drives in RAID 5 work just fine.
I'm pretty sure he's still alive even though he stopped coming here. His website is still up. Unless he paid for it years in advance, it likely would have disappeared long ago.RIP...
I'm pretty sure he's still alive even though he stopped coming here. His website is still up. Unless he paid for it years in advance, it likely would have disappeared long ago.