Hitachi starts shipping 4TB Ultastars

[BingBangBop]

Hitachi begins to ship Enterprise class 4TB HD with 5Y warranties

You can bet that like all Ultrastar drives it will be expensive but where can you get 5Y warranties on HD's now?
It will also be inevitable that they will soon be shipping 4TB Deskstars at a more consumer friendly price but without the extended warranty.

 

[Handruin]

Thanks for the info. I can't wait to see what the cost will be on one of those. I see they are 4KB/512e advanced format give the size. I'm hoping that since they're enterprise-class drives, maybe they'll be decent on RAID cards with respect to the TLER configuration?

 

[LunarMist]

So what is the probability of the drives

 

[Handruin]

According to the news article, 100% probable.

 

[LunarMist]

Something of mine seems to be missing. I'm not sure why.

 

[time]

The pink ball, remember?

 

[LunarMist]

The pink ball, remember?

I may get a new ball or some other personal aid. However, the oddity was that somehow my statement was truncated.

I question whether there will be normal 4TB Hibachi drives and if they will be worth a damn. I don't want to pay 2x for TLER or whatever makes the Ultrastars RAID happy unless they are truly better in other ways.

 

[LunarMist]

Apparently the Desktar version does already exist. I'm behind the times.

 

[Mercutio]

At least the Deskstar/Ultrastar brand names still exist. RIP Spinpoint.

 

[LunarMist]

So did they completely stop making the Samsung design, or is it a diftferent model under Hibachis?

 

[sechs]

Samsung -> Seagate
Hitachi GST -> The Devil

 

[LunarMist]

Ugh, I meant under the Seagate brand.