techspot.com/news/80365-seagate-16tb-hdds-now-available-purchase.html >The data storage company on Tuesday said it has been actively shipping its Exos X16 HDD, a 3.5-inch 7200 RPM drive designed specifically for enterprise applications. More applicable to the average consumer, Seagate also announced its IronWolf and IronWolf Pro 16TB drives for home and small office NAS systems and small-medium business environments, respectively. The standard IronWolf drive packs a three-year warranty and is ideal for backups, remote access and file sharing while the Pro variant comes with a five-year warranty and is meant for environments with heavier workloads.
>Both IronWolf models boast 256MB of cache and utilize the SATA 6Gb/s interface. Seagate’s Exos X16 16TB HDD carries an MSRP of $629 and is available to purchase from today. >IronWolf and IronWolf Pro drives are also in stock and shipping from Connection for $590.80 and $650.58, respectively. >$0.037/GB Why are drives larger than 3 and maybe 4TB never cheaper $/GB wise? New ones on PCPartpicker are $0.015 or $0.017/GB right now. It's been that way for years. If these large capacity drives don't get cheaper there is little point in them existing especially as large SSDs get cheaper.
lack of being mass produced. 4TB drives are produced now on a grand scale. Being mass produced means price goes down. If we ever get to the point where high capacity drives become extremely common place, we'll see cheap 8TB Drives.
Adam Adams
I need more drive space but I'm poorfag student right now ;_;
Michael Williams
>still using 7200rpm >not 10 or 15K Into the trash it goes all 5200 and 7200rpm disks
Aaron Perez
both 10k and 15k are worthless when SSDs exist. HDDs not are purely for mass storage reasons. Nothing more nothing less. Get with the times grandpa.
Jayden Long
I keep hoping that announcements for higher-capacity drives ends up pushing down prices or raising capacity for mainstream mechanical storage but it never does. I only hope Seagate's HAMR + WD's MAMR technologies finally break the dam on areal density of platters and we finally escape the mass storage purgatory that has set in ever since perpendicular recording was introduced back around 2006. Non-enterprise users matter too and not everyone trusts the Cloud.
The higher capacity the drive, the more features they put in it to ensure stability and lack of data loss. Just take a look at the features in those 16TB drives vs their 2TB ironwolfs, it's a significant gap (and you can see the difference in their long-term failure rates, lower capacity drives fail much more often).
It's in the OP >Seagate’s Exos X16 16TB HDD carries an MSRP of $629 and is available to purchase from today. >IronWolf and IronWolf Pro drives are also in stock and shipping from Connection for $590.80 and $650.58, respectively.
Charles Martin
That's pretty expensive, too bad because I'm really looking to buy 2 HDD with a lot of storage space (1 for hoarding shit indefinitely and the other for backups). In a few months maybe.
Andrew Collins
These are enterprise drives and NAS drives, they're always expensive
Barracuda Pro 16TB desktop drives should ship later this year for under $600
Aaron Wood
>tfw can buy 32TB worth of storage instead of the Apple StandTM
Ayden Allen
Ah right, my bad, I thought it was their consumer drives. I'll probably get 2 6tb or 8tb drives anyway since it's way more affordable.
Jack Johnson
>seagate
Enjoy the data loss cuckies
Tyler Williams
I have a 10GB Seagate, likely manufactured before either of you were born, still spinning.