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I noticed 4tb hd prices on their way up again.

When will we see large storage come down in price, I am sick of paying ridiculous amounts for HDs only for them to die a few years later.

These larger capacity SATA drives are low quality and too expensive.
 
The external large drives had a huge price difference to internal, luckily the 5tb Toshiba I got is 7200rpm, large cache, and they will allegidly honour warrenty if u liberate it from enclosure.

Does 200 meg a sec too, and good warrenty
 
What brands are you buying?

In comparison, the larger capacity drives aren't much more than their lower equivalent.

Looking at the WD reds: (All prices from OCUK)
6Tb = 0.034p/gb
5Tb = 0.034p/gb
4Tb = 0.032p/gb
3Tb = 0.030p/gb
2Tb = 0.036p/gb
1Tb = 0.053p/gb

So the sweet-spot is currently around the 3/4Tb.

The 6Tb costing £209.99, if it had the same pence per gb as the 4Tb, it would be around £196, which isn't a huge saving by any means.
 
All over priced never been the same since the floods which was a long time ago and the quality of them doesn't appear so great see a lot more fail quickly.
 
Price per GB isn't the only thing you should consider. The physical space it takes up should also be factored in, especially if you plan to expand.

Total data size divided by number of slots used.

Which makes the 6TB drives much more practical than 3TB.



Totally depends on your usage requirements.
 
LOL. I just purchased a 6TB WD RED PRO last week only fitted yesterday and tried to exchange files from my internal 1TB seagate and it keeps making a clicking noise. 1 Day drive and its off back. You wouldn't mind but £244 for a 6TB drive to be faulty when its not even been used. If they want to keep charging stupid money for these larger drives then they should really be better quality. After reading reviews on the REDS and me having this problem after just installing it im unsure weather or not to get another. The seagate i got with my HTPC no problems at all after 2 years having
 
nicknack35 said:
LOL. I just purchased a 6TB WD RED PRO last week only fitted yesterday and tried to exchange files from my internal 1TB seagate and it keeps making a clicking noise. 1 Day drive and its off back. You wouldn't mind but £244 for a 6TB drive to be faulty when its not even been used. If they want to keep charging stupid money for these larger drives then they should really be better quality. After reading reviews on the REDS and me having this problem after just installing it im unsure weather or not to get another. The seagate i got with my HTPC no problems at all after 2 years having
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Just a bad drive. Things slip through QA.
 
I don't know if it's me but for personal storage,photos and music etc, I'm a bit adverse to the idea of using a drive larger than 3TB as if you had a 6TB drive and it failed then there's a lot more data gone.

Still I guess I'm not a large data user compared to others so I can just about get away with using 3TB drives.
 
APM said:
I don't know if it's me but for personal storage,photos and music etc, I'm a bit adverse to the idea of using a drive larger than 3TB as if you had a 6TB drive and it failed then there's a lot more data gone.

Still I guess I'm not a large data user compared to others so I can just about get away with using 3TB drives.
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That's why you buy multiple drives.

Data is data, it takes up the same amount of space, having it on a lower number of drives makes it easier to manage.

For me, physical case space takes precedent over price.
 
keyser said:
Yup I had a WD Red 4TB fail
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nicknack35 said:
I just purchased a 6TB WD RED PRO last week only fitted yesterday and tried to exchange files from my internal 1TB seagate and it keeps making a clicking noise.
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2 WD Drives failed in the same thread - surely not?

If it they were Seagate drives, the usual suspects would be bashing them immediately and quoting backblaze stats.



pedromaltez said:
Just a bad drive. Things slip through QA.
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Exactly this - no manufacturers are immune to failures
 
Yeah moving parts break, its just a matter on time (hours, days, years!). DOA drives maybe just from getting man handled during delivery. I buy my hard drive in twos. I'm toying with a FreeNAS setup for storing files. Damn the drive prices though :( I my reuse existing 4TB Reds and wait out the price of 8+TBs #firstworldproblems

You could argue that fewer larger drives are better than lots of smaller drives, due to less of the moving-parts-that-will-fail-per-TB ratio. Just get 2 HDs with a decent warranty, and expect to use it :)
 
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I think we will see HDD prices slowly creep up as sales fall thanks to SSD, they must be losing a lot of sales at the low end since most people will boot from SSD now if they can.
 
I've been meaning to swap out my 2x 1.5TB WD green's and 2x 2TB WD green's for some much larger drives. I've had them about 7 years now :o
 
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