Apparently WD and Seagate stock have already taken a hit at the announcement.
I wonder what the servo writers for these drives look like.
Nice. I switched from WD to Toshiba in 2024
Why?
Not whom you asked, but in my experience and from what I’ve read on the webs, WD’s reliability is a coin toss. Some drives keep chugging for years and years, other ones croak too soonish.
For HDD I only buy WD, especially so with external drives. From my experience they are the only one really reliable ones. I have purchased a few times other brands, mostly Seagate and that was a coin toss to me, and another brand I don’t remember, was a total disaster. Off course just speaking from personal experience. I don’t like this being “blindly” brand loyal, but with WD I get reliance. And no I’m not an advertisement agent, just noticed it sounds like that, lol.
Not as scummy marketing (hiding SMR among CMR)
Trump kept threatening Europe, so I stopped buying US products
Good that Toshiba saw the increase in demand as an opportunity to increase sales volume, rather than price gouge their customers. Hopefully they gain market share.
sales volume
Why not both ™ ?
The good, more HDDs and bigger drives.
The bad, they will directly to data centers.I hope it alleviates the pressure. I need to upgrade the 4TB in my array, badly. It’s all on borrowed time.
I have 4x8tb drives that have way too many hours on them
I don’t want to look. I think mine might be getting towards 10 years old.
I don’t hoard video files, so 1TB still seems unimaginably vast. I was shocked when I learned my entire CD collection, ripped to FLAC, would fit on my phone. 100TB is like a billion dollars, my mind has difficulty understanding numbers that large.
You get games that are several hundred gigabytes these days - high resolution art assets are big.
Filling up a 1TB drive is easy. 100TB, yeah, that’s a lot of space.
Don’t count bytes, look at what they can store: 1TB will hold like four to eight recent AAA games.
Without going into video media, I’ve got around 2-3TB of photos (in RAW format) and my ripped/downloaded music collection is about the same size. Probably got about 5TB of device backups and a similar amount of retro games ROMs/disk images
I think between my desktop PC and server I’ve got about 70-80TB of storage (though not all of it is usable for redundancy)
I could see myself building a new NAS in a couple of years that would make use of a few of those drives if the economics work out
I’ve had good reliability from Toshiba in the past few years. I hope they can keep it up.
