WD making 4 TB disk.

[Smith P.]

Western Digital releases monster 4TB hard drive
$650 price tag

 

[Foxbat]

Okay, obvious question: When will Dish (or Tivo) put it in a DVR?

 

[Pepper]

when it cost them the same as the 1TB they are using now.

 

[pro96]

Hmmm, my HR20 currently has a 2TB. But $600+ to add 2 additional TB's its a bit pricey for me.

 

[TheForce]

Buy one and try it with the USB external HD application. I'm using 1 Tb drives now.

 

[Smith P.]

I'd like remark this - it's a dual drive enclosure, not just one huge 4 TB disk; could be configured as RAID-0 ie 4 TB size or RAID-1 ie 2 TB mirror for guard your data.

 

[Pepper]

And you can bet it will format to a maximum of 4 trillion bytes, not 4398046511104 bytes. That's almost 400GB difference there because hard drive manufacturers count in decimal, computers count in binary. Clueless buyers will complain about "losing" 10% of their storage space when they connect it to their computer.

 

[Van]

Seems kind of a waste to make a drive that large when platter based drives are now deep in the throws of dinosaur death with the growth of SSD's but for now I can see that it will have a place on the commercial side of things.

 

[Ramy]

That is a lot of space.

 

[Foxbat]

I'm still waiting for the solid-state memory PCI-e cards to arrive in force. I have some servers at work that I'd like to speed up...

 

[Smith P.]

Are still running legacy FoxBase clients who are updating DBs on the server ?

 

[allargon]

Seems kind of a waste to make a drive that large when platter based drives are now deep in the throws of dinosaur death with the growth of SSD's but for now I can see that it will have a place on the commercial side of things.

Maybe for Netbooks...I need more than 128GB of barely faster SSD for my notebooks much less my desktops and servers.