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Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium
- esaym 9y ago8 platters? Seems like it might be extra loud... Speaking of which.. what is a good hard drive that is above 1tb that is extra loud? I want my kids to grow up with a loud hard drive just like I did....
- Veratyr 9y agoThe Toshiba X300 series is pretty loud but dense and cheap.
- amigoingtodie 9y agoWith an MFM controller card?
- rzzzt 9y agoAnd a stepper motor for head stack positioning.
- jackfraser 9y agoYou could tell _exactly_ what it was loading...
- PascLeRasc 9y agoAny Seagate 7.2k will do the trick for you.
- gcp 9y agoThe Barracuda Pro 10TB is reportedly pretty quiet. I'd hope so, as I've got one coming in.
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- almostorganized 9y agoIve had good success with the newer seagate ironwolf ones, very audible to the next room (open door), especially with random io
- PascLeRasc 9y agoI was going to say the opposite - recently deployed 12x 10TB Ironwolf Pros and I can't hear them above the Synology's fans.
- CSDude 9y agoI bought WD Red and can hear Synology and it both :(
- PascLeRasc 9y agoMy Synology is rather loud I'll admit, but at least it's two bigger 120mm fans so the sound isn't too high-pitched. Have you tried turning the profile to quiet on DSM?
- zlynx 9y agoI've got six WD Reds and can't hear them at all. I put them in a Fractal Design R5 silent case. :) It's a home NAS but I figure I can shut it down to replace a drive. No need for drive bays, neat as they are.
- stordoff 9y agoRunning WD Reds in my Synology (DS415play/4TB drives), and I can tell when the nightly backup starts because I hear the drives pick up. Granted I'm only a couple of feet away, and only notice when the room is otherwise silent, but definitely audible.
- fencepost 9y agoI believe the Black drives have a reputation for being pretty noisy.
- devonkim 9y agoThe WD 1 TB Black drive I bought in 2009 (and still works great) is rather quiet to my ears and I'm a complete PC silence freak to the point I bought a liquid cooled 1080 Ti to avoid the cooling fans from running on the video card itself.
- ianai 9y agoCan vouch. They're awesome but loud about it.
- elorant 9y agoTry a Seagate Constellation. I bought one a year ago and the damn thing was so loud that I had to hack the box by installing elastic cord to keep the HDD floating and fixed.
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- kyriakos 9y agowhy would you want to do that to them? I remember listening to the sounds of the audio tape drive loading games in my 8bit 64kbyte RAM home computer. I don't wish my kids will ever have to go through that :)
- chewyland 9y agoMy A501 expansion for my Amiga 500 so quiet. Not mechanical, of course, but I'll never forget that dreary Winnipeg bus ride to pick one up.
- amorphid 9y agoMy first hard drive (8.9MB, 5.25", double height) was loud, but it was too slow to be obnoxious :)
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- yeukhon 9y agoHGST is a great brand, which incidentally has been acquited by WD a couple years ago. I highly recommend it.
- brian_herman 9y agoJust record a noisy hard drive and play it through the speakers :D
- kpcyrd 9y agoUse one of the cheap external disk cases and make sure it's on the desk.
- Neil44 9y agoWD Red and Red Pro's are loud.
- wazoox 9y agoNo actually they're very quiet, thanks to helium and its doubly supported disk axis. Power consumption is also much lower than air drives.
- dom0 9y agoJust hook an old Quantum Fireball or something similar up to the power, they spin up with no controller connected.
- agumonkey 9y agoLooking at the page I remembered the first HDD I even bought: a 13GB from IBM (before the deathstar chapter). Coming from a 1GB drive, I thought this thing would never be filled. Didn't took long before I revise my billgatey judgement.
- officialjunk 9y agomy first hard drive was 500mb and was about $500. also bought an external 2x CD rom drive, which had a caddy and came with Myst, for $700. this was around the early-mid 90's.
- nnutter 9y agoHad to get the 2x so you could get realtime audio! 1x would stutter.
- simcop2387 9y agoUnless your sound card had the ide interface or you managed to have the right audio cable to connect the drive to it and let the drive do the playing with not controls for yourself.
- joering2 9y agoThe hard drive you been waiting for... http://media02.hongkiat.com/vintage-tech-ads/hardisk-waiting-for.jpg http://media02.hongkiat.com/vintage-tech-ads/hardisk-waiting...
- narrator 9y agoAt 255mb/s will take about 13.7 hours to write the whole drive.
- frozenport 9y agoDont forget that the inside is half the speed of the outside.
- CSDude 9y agoI wonder what is the physical limit for 3.5" because my NAS has one slot left, and I was about to buy an 10TB one.
- fnj 9y agoPhysical? You could jam a lot more storage in a 3.5" drive than you're ever going to see, but it would not be economically practical, and the MTBF and reliability would be very poor.
- e12e 9y agoHow many sdcards[1] could you fit in the volume of a 3.5 hdd? [1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/20/12986234/biggest-sd-card-1-terabyte-sandisk https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/20/12986234/b...
- aidenn0 9y agoHave 2.5" rotating drives stopped growing? Last time I checked, flash drives were too expensive, but rotating media topped out at 2TB [EDIT] WD has a 4TB hybrid drive, but couldn't find any others larger than 2TB
- cm2187 9y agoSeagate has a 5TB
- aidenn0 9y agoGood find; 3-5TB at 15mm and they also have a 2TB in a 7mm package which is somewhat unusual.
- jseliger 9y agoThat's strange—there have been physically small 4TB HDs for a while: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9489/seagate-backup-plus-portable-4tb-usb-30-drive-review http://www.anandtech.com/show/9489/seagate-backup-plus-porta... . I have this one or one like it as a Time Machine backup.
- kijin 9y agoThese drives tend to be thicker than the standard 2.5" slot (7 or 9 mm). Which is why they are only sold as external drives. You can't fit one in a laptop or third-party 2.5" enclosure. The one you linked to is 20.5 mm thick and weighs 540 g including the enclosure. I'm not even sure whether there's a single 4 TB drive in there, since a pair of 2 TB, 7 mm Seagate drives would be both thinner and lighter.
- kalleboo 9y agoLooks like the drive inside it is 15mm thick http://www.seagate.com/products/laptop-mobile-storage/laptop-internal-drives/laptop-hdd/?sku=ST4000LM016 http://www.seagate.com/products/laptop-mobile-storage/laptop...
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- jl6 9y agoGlad to see these making their way into retail channels. I've been a little frustrated reading articles in the consumer press about HDDs which are only ever shipped B2B.
- kyriakos 9y agohow hot will this run?
- sireat 9y agoWhat provisions are there on restoring these Helium HDDs to working order 10+ years from now on? Helium will leak so that is an extra problem to deal with in preserving data. Regular HDDs, replace a controller or even open up old HDDs and run them open in a clean room no problem.
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- wmf 9y agoBackups, backups, backups.
- nnleaf 9y agoI had a scare once and lost a few months worth of pictures. Glad it was only regular life instead of anything important, but that was what pushed me to always value backups and redundancy.
- labcomputer 9y agoIt might not be that bad, actually (unless you open it up). Even cheap butyl gaskets will do a good job keeping out the constituents of a standard air mixture of gases. Any He leakage would thus cause a pressure differential, which will tend to prevent further outleakage of He (by countering the entropy gain from mixing He with the air outside).
- kogepathic 9y ago> Even cheap butyl gaskets will do a good job keeping out the constituents of a standard air mixture of gases. Any He leakage would thus cause a pressure differential, which will tend to prevent further outleakage of He (by countering the entropy gain from mixing He with the air outside). While this would probably be true for almost any other gas, Helium is devilishly small and can permeate through the metal over time. [0] [0] http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/helium-filled-10tb-harddrive/25/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/helium-filled-10tb-harddri...
- shmerl 9y agoIs it very noisy?
- ksec 9y agoCompared to our Data Growth, HDD capacity growth has been rather slow in recent years. ( In terms of TB/Plate ) I thought DC were suppose to drive the HAMR ( Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording )tech forward when the consumer space is now in decline. Or has the tech matured to the point, where even small and medium size company are happy with these 12TB HDD, and larger HDD only mattered to a few such as Google, Netflix, Amazon, Blackblaze, OVH, Microsoft and Apple etc.
- mike503 9y agoOnly 550TB yearly rated load? That seems low. Less than 50x the size of the drive. Maybe that's normal but that just seems very odd to me.
- generous 9y agoThe hard drives get bigger, the file sizes get bigger with 4k, but the bandwidth shrinks. Right after I bought a 4k tv to stream, my cable provider informs me they will be implementing 1tb data caps. A single 4k UHD Cineform movie takes ~250gb. So now I get 4 movies a month, thanks Cox.
- jordiburgos 9y agoOK, now it can hold all my node_modules folder.