News - Western Digital thinks big with 6TB external storage solution

[HEXUS]

Builds the foundations for an HD content-filled home.

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[ypsylon]

Seriously you have to be drunk and mad to buy this. 6TB over USB2 or FW. eSata is also far from perfect. Controller must support over 2TB volumes. The only way right now for home is USB3. And price... You can buy RAID boxes with 4-5 bays for less. And many of them (and more is coming) has only eSata and USB3.

[MadduckUK]

6TB over USB2

i think they can safely discount the minority of people who are going to fill the drive up in one transfer... good enough for its intended purpose.

[this_is_gav]

eSata is also far from perfect.

In what way? It's just SATA which requires power... just like internal SATA drives do.

It's just a big data drive, as stated it's perfect for lots of HD content or long-term incremental backups. It would be a tasty backup solution at work.

[Funkstar]

You can buy RAID boxes with 4-5 bays for less.

Perhaps, but then you need to buy the drives, and two 3TB drives will set you back about $200 each (the article only gives a US Dollar price, so I checked NewEgg for the price of a 3TB WD drive)