News - Hitachi ships internal 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 hard drive kits

[HEXUS]

First shipment of 3.5 inch 4TB internal hard drives lands in Japan.

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[shaithis]

No 4TB from Western Digital?

[cairnscj]

Only 32MB cache, that seems a little tight. Surely 64 MB would be more suitable?

[jim]

No 4TB from Western Digital?

Why the celebration? I'm guessing now's not the time for WD to be launching new products.

[shaithis]

Wasn't so much a celebration.....more of a silly smilie TBH...Just trying to glean at least a small amount of fun amidst the cluster%^&* that is todays HDD market!

[Monkeysweat]

thank god,, i got a mATX enclosure,, this will help my storage issues out -- also running quite low on sata ports,, helping me out again..

can only take 4 HDD + 1 SSD internally,, leaving my DVD drive as IDE for now helps,,

[jim]

Wasn't so much a celebration.....more of a silly smilie TBH...Just trying to glean at least a small amount of fun amidst the cluster%^&* that is todays HDD market!

True. I'm seriously looking at building a new fileserver, so this is definitely a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

[Pancake]

inb4

CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK

Too many platters for me, will fail so much more easily

[rabbid]

lets hope they built this factory on higher ground!
also in an earthquake resistant area

[dave87]

No doubt of little surprise to anyone, but I was looking at some more 2tb Samsung EcoGreen drives for my Microserver, and I didn't like the prices very much.

I doubt I'm going to like the price of the 4tb drive at this stage either....


...£300+ by the time they get to the UK?

[jim]

No doubt of little surprise to anyone, but I was looking at some more 2tb Samsung EcoGreen drives for my Microserver, and I didn't like the prices very much.

I doubt I'm going to like the price of the 4tb drive at this stage either....


...£300+ by the time they get to the UK?

I expect so. But once the market settles down they should force down the price of the 3TB drives which is the main thing.

[Funkstar]

I've been out of the loop a bit recently, this is quite a surprise to me. I thought we would have to wait longer for 4TB drives.

Would be interesting to see my file server re-built with these in RAID-6.

[UseItNow]

I expect so. But once the market settles down they should force down the price of the 3TB drives which is the main thing.

3Tb HDD's have been out for a while now, the prices seem to have hardly fallen, especially the internal ones, well I'm pretty sure its been like that prior to the floods!

[Blastuk]

How hot do you think this thing will run?

[mikerr]

Hmm, they have been using 1TB platters for a while now,
and hitachi's top end normally have 5 platters,
so where's the 5TB drive ?

[riding moon]

where can you get this?