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Never_More

A must read for all the power user that hasn't gotten everything.. I know what's on my Christmas list..
 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-sandisk-ssd-qlc-nand,33143.html

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Heckler

I've been waiting for prices on 6TB and upwards drives to fall for 2yrs... and they haven't shifted one single bit... In fact here in the UK prices are still increasing due to the weak currency rates.

 

It was 20% cheaper to purchase 2x3TB than a single low end Toshiba 6TB

 

When they had those floods in 2011-2012 that destroyed a lot of production... prices were hiked immediately, even on existing stock. They saw an opportunity to profit and took it.  They've remained at those levels ever since.

 

As already said... it's about the price per GB and until SSD's can beat mechanical on that front... I'm stuck with what I have now.

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JeremyFr79

It's gonna be a long while until I replace the 24 3TB drives I have in production now on my file server.  For the foreseeable future I'll just be replacing them with identical drives as they fail.

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CharleyVarrick

Like others, I am replacing aging and/or smaller for bigger drives as needed, but I would not mass-purchase anything these days, as we're at a technological turning point.

Anyone tried the Seagate Archive 8tb? Nice price/bytes ratio!

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PenkethBoy

Like others, I am replacing aging and/or smaller for bigger drives as needed, but I would not mass-purchase anything these days, as we're at a technological turning point.

Anyone tried the Seagate Archive 8tb? Nice price/bytes ratio!

Hi just a warning - be careful of the archive drives they have poor write performance and good read performance - fine for an archive/backup - not so much in everyday use

 

depends on your requirements of course so will be fine for some

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ginjaninja

Like others, I am replacing aging and/or smaller for bigger drives as needed, but I would not mass-purchase anything these days, as we're at a technological turning point.

Anyone tried the Seagate Archive 8tb? Nice price/bytes ratio!

8tb archive seagates are ideal for media storage ..write little...read a little more. There not speedy but at 100mbs sequential read more than fast enough...4x2tb may be cheaper but not so much cheaper that they make sense in the long term..id recommend.

 

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Give me 8TB SSD's that are limited to 500MB/s read/write...He'll i'll take 200MB/s read/write as long as they're $250 are less. hahahahaha

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Never_More

Like others, I am replacing aging and/or smaller for bigger drives as needed, but I would not mass-purchase anything these days, as we're at a technological turning point.

Anyone tried the Seagate Archive 8tb? Nice price/bytes ratio!

I just bought 3 for my new server I'm building.. ty post "show OFF your system" seen so many people that have huge system and now have server enive lol

 

They are slow to copy to but reading is just fine for streaming..

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JeremyFr79

I just bought 3 for my new server I'm building.. ty post "show OFF your system" seen so many people that have huge system and now have server enive lol

 

They are slow to copy to but reading is just fine for streaming..

That reminds me, now that I'm in the new house and the rack is back together I need to get new pics lol stuff has changed since I last posted in that thread lol

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legallink

I just bought 3 for my new server I'm building.. ty post "show OFF your system" seen so many people that have huge system and now have server enive lol

 

They are slow to copy to but reading is just fine for streaming..

 

How's the sound signature on these?

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ginjaninja

How's the sound signature on these?

They do click louder than average..and you can hear them occasionally..have to be pretty picky to care as you cant hear over a film say.

 

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Heckler

Just picked up a couple of 3TB seagate desktop drives and have been transferring TB of data to them. across the SATA III Bus I was getting an average of 130mbps with highs of 220mbps and lows of 85mbps.

 

Was transferring from other SATAIII drives with variable speeds of 5400-7200rpm, one was a Samsung 1.5TB green and the other a 3TB seagate barracuda.

 

 

Compare that to transferring files from a SATAIII Drive to a USB3 flash drive and I'm getting 230mbps... So it's not all bad for mechanical drives.

 

My OS is a 250GB SSD and I tested that when I installed it and although it's rated at 450mbps write and 500mbps read... I don't have anything as fast to transfer to and test real world speeds but across the USB3 ports I was getting closer to 300mbps.

 

Hopefully by the time I build a new mediaserver around 2020 (this one can be upgraded a little to extend it's lifespan)... SSD's in huge capacities will be the norm and will have surpassed mechanical in terms of £ per GB.

 

I can see myself being in need of around 30TB by them based on going from 5TB in 2010 to 16TB at the end of 2016.

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Never_More

How's the sound signature on these?

I have this in my  living-room HTPC server and I cant hear them even at night when its dead quite, the Seagate 4tb greens made more noise that my new 8s

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