WD WD121KRYZ 12TB Gold 3.5" SATA3 7200RPM Datacenter Hard Drive - SATA 6 Gb/s - 256MB Cache - 5 Years Limited Warranty
Great drive for upgrading your NAS. Significantly cheaper than recently seen prices, which tended to hover just above $900. They are probably responding to Seagate introducing their 12TB drives.
Sure, but you realise the usable space also varies with file system? So how do you want to handle that?
It's not a good thing but it's not a new trick either
…well technically speaking, 12TB is advertised correctly but since computers only work in base2 you thought it meant 12TiB…but yes, they need to change their marketing strategy and advertise in base2 and not base10 to avoid this confusion…
^ That's every storage device for the past 10 years
Since forever.
True, but we're talking about more than a whole TB here. That's huge. Previously, for example, on a 1TB drive, if you get 930GB usable, it still rounds up to 1TB. On a 2TB drive, it still rounds up to 2. This isn't the case here.
Why aren't you complaining that the advertised 1TB drive is 'effectively' a 930GB drive then?
Read my comment above. 930 rounds up to 1TB.
@MrZ:
See @apnamasti's reply. You are arguing with an incorrect assumption that the marketed storage space is 'rounded' up to the nearest TB.
@MrZ,
HDD are sold in the form of KB i.e for 1TB is 1000000000 KB. Windows follow the true 1024 rule for TB conversion hence why you see 930GB. Same priciple is applied to 12TB which is 12000000000 KB. At the end it is the same ratio, so this 12TB isnt any different to the 1TB.
8 platter helium drive. First gen 8 platter design. Do want, but despite being an enterprise drive, i don't know if i trust it. MTBF is an extrapolated number and I'm not sure I'd there is reliability data on the 10tb (also 8 platter) yet?
Its too new to new to tell but historically Enterprise drive tend to have higher failure rate than consumer drive.
That could easily be attributed to the fact that enterprise drives are spinning 24/7 and almost always being written to or read from.
True. And mine would be rarely written and read
Enterprise drive designed to be housed in controlled room (same temperature, dust free, no vibration). Running 24x7 really does not cause damage to hdd, its the spin up spin down that kill hdd faster. Consumer drive designed to live in harsher environment where ot exposes to dust, high temperature fluctuations, frequent spin up and down, vibration and power instability.
Company like backblaze published their hard drive result and you can see the evidence (although with small sample) that the failure rate of enterprise hdd is higher than the consumer drive. See: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2…
All hard drive will eventually fail. Buying enterprise hard drive because its more reliable is not the right reason.
@pig: > All hard drive will eventually fail. Buying enterprise hard drive because its more reliable is not the right reason.
IT is a reason if they can prove enterprise grade drives are more reliable than consumer ones. Also there are currently no consumer grade 12TB drives that can compete with this storage wise - so that's another reason for getting this if you just want to deal with only a single large drive over multiple smaller ones….
@Zachary:
Capacity, features and performance is valid reason to buy this hard drive but reliability is not. Reliability simply can not be proven ahead of time.
Also, you should avoid using enterprise drive as single drive. Enterprise drive generally does not have bad sector recovery as it meant to be put in RAID.
@pig: Ok well then have a RAID setup for as your system drive…oh right that requires more than one drive…well set it as RAID 1 and pretend you don't physically see two or more drives in your case, now you still have a single large drive for everything! :D Problem solved; also solves reliability issue too thanks to RAID 1!
still not big enough for all the pr0n
Holy shit that's like the biggest storage capacity of a single drive I've seen!
Seagate has also starting to sell 12TB Ironwolf (consumer NAS drive).
I found newegg sells these for $603 AUD, assuming free shipping, I've not bought anything from these guys before so no idea how they handle shipping: https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N…
So I found another place who sells it for cheaper + postage: http://www.skycomp.com.au/wd-gold-121kryz-12tb-high-capacity… @ $645.70 than what Mwave is offering.
Actually Megabuy too: https://www.megabuy.com.au/wd-12tb-gold-datacenter-35-inch-s… $633.91 + postage.
And Eyo: https://www.eyo.com.au/577727_western-digital-wd-gold-121kry… $650.94 + postage
Lower prices two and a half weeks later? No surprise there. When the deal was posted, other retailers wanted around $900 for the same drive. MWave were the first to drop the price.
Still, it's good to see that prices continue to go down and stay there. Don't want another long term price hike, like when Thailand was flooded.
…oh, Megabuy jacked their price up to $900 something, skycomp and eyo stays the same and newegg is now out of stock……
Somewhat misleading advertising it as 12TB when you'll end up with 10.9 after formatting and such. Effectively, it's a 11TB drive.