Hi Guys and Girls,
I've been looking out for cheap locally sourced 4TB Hitachi drives. This is the cheapest that I have seen.
Touro Desk 4000GB AP USB 3.0 $197
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Most of those stores on staticICE selling for $219 are selling the Touro Desk Pro 4TB, which has 7200RPM drives. This appears to be the standard version (with non-glossy enclosure) with 5400RPM drives. $20 more for 7200RPM is worth it, IMHO.
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=touro+4tb&s…
I'll let you know what I end up with… If it ends up being the 5400rpm coolspin HGST's then I will be happier as they are being ripped out and installed into a 20 bay norco, so the lower power usage and lower heat will suit me just fine.
Edit: when you look at their store in this listing:
http://www.estore.com.au/find%5Cstorage%5Cexternal-hard-driv…It's description is Touro Desk Pro.
eStore lists the manufacturer part number (MPN) for that product as 0S03408, which is the standard Touro Desk: http://www.touropro.com/images/site/pdf/TouroDesk_3.0_datash…
So either their product title is incorrect or the MPN is incorrect. If it's important to you, it's probably worth seeking clarification from eStore. :)
The Touro Desk Pro listed by other stores at $219 has a MPN of 0S03505: http://www.touropro.com/images/site/pdf/TouroDeskPro_datashe…
20 X 4TB = 80TB minus formatting and raid… What's that leave you with? 70TB?
That's some serious storage!
You can run yourself a data center.
For anyone that is interested I can confirm that these enclosures contained the 5K4000 hitachi drives. Personally I preferred these so i'm not at all unhappy, but if you were after a single fast drive then you might want to look towards the above mentioned Pro version of the touro (tho if you are going to keep it in the enclosure i'm not sure how much of the speed you will see).
Just a word of warning, I bought a number of 4 TB disks as backup devices for a MS Small Business Server 2011 and the (built-in) backup kept failing. After a lot of research I have discovered that the MS SBS built-in backup (2011 and 2008) cannot use larger than 2 TB disks.
So if you plan to backup MS SBS -don't use these.
As I was stuck with the disks I had to purchase a 3rd party solution.They are going into an ESXi server and the hba card will be passed through to something that will use zfs (Solaris, freenas).
Dick Smith are currently selling a 4TB Seagate USB3 drive for $169 here http://www.dicksmith.com.au/weekend-deals Is this drive worth an extra $30?
I personally wanted the drives to run in an array. The Hitachi drives have been well reviewed. Seagate have had mixed reviews, that's the reason that I preferred to go with the hitachi's.
Excellent - best price elsewhere has been around $219 for some time.
10 x ordered :)