10TB hard drives.
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I'd only need 6 of those at the moment...
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Fatwah on Western Digital
That sounds about right. 3TB drives have been around, what? Two and a half years?
I'd be willing to bet that price pressure will have sub-$5000 4k TVs on shelves by then (currently around $25k), and I'm likewise sure that the usual suspects will have prosumer cameras as well.
I'd be willing to bet that price pressure will have sub-$5000 4k TVs on shelves by then (currently around $25k), and I'm likewise sure that the usual suspects will have prosumer cameras as well.
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In a related note, this is going to give some hacker types some motivation.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
A $7,000 camera probably qualifies are "prosumer", right?
I can't really think of anything else that could drive demand for 10TB drives. Even a single 4TB drive represents an absolutely mind-boggling quantity of compressed x.264 video. Uncompressed BD images, maybe, for the tiny percentage of people who know how to extra files from them. And backups, I guess.
But I couldn't even guess at how to quantify 10TB as audio recordings or still images in the way that retail hard drive packages most often do. Coming soon, the Seagate Gigantio: "Every noise you will ever hear in your entire life, stored in 128kb .MP3"
I can't really think of anything else that could drive demand for 10TB drives. Even a single 4TB drive represents an absolutely mind-boggling quantity of compressed x.264 video. Uncompressed BD images, maybe, for the tiny percentage of people who know how to extra files from them. And backups, I guess.
But I couldn't even guess at how to quantify 10TB as audio recordings or still images in the way that retail hard drive packages most often do. Coming soon, the Seagate Gigantio: "Every noise you will ever hear in your entire life, stored in 128kb .MP3"
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Fatwah on Western Digital
They're not going to be buying 10TB consumer drives for that application regardless. At least, not in 2014.
Bozo
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I could have used those 10TB drives about 4 months ago. Instaed of 10-3TB drives in RAID 5 for storage, I could have used 3-10TB drives. Lees power, heat, and noise.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
As a data point, WD (Hitachi) released its 7200rpm 4TB SAS drive last Friday. Enterprise definitely lag consumer models for data density.