Toshiba Announces a 5TB Hard Drive

in storage on 2014-02-18 00:43 (#3EJ)

Anandtech is running an article about a spacious new 5TB enterprise HDD from Toshiba. 3.5 inch, 7200 RPM, 128 MiB, either SATA or SAS 6Gb/s.

Re: I really feel that these sort of disks are starting to be seriously limited.. (Score: 1)

by per@pipedot.org on 2014-02-20 08:04 (#39)

For that, you'd use zfs snapshots, and send+recv. Infinitely faster than rsync on large files where only a small portion has changed, because the file system knows what has changed, while rsync has to read and compare the files.