Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by mmh@pipedot.org on 2014-02-18 05:52 (#1W) Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too.http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hard-drive-hdd-6tb-helium,25925.html# Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by sgtcapslock@pipedot.org on 2014-02-19 08:53 (#2S) Context-sensitive news, just as I'm wondering what to do about my lack of storage!I've been using random 3.5" server drives with an external USB 3.0 dock for a while now. I've been really thinking about doing some kind of RAID setup with one of those 5.25"->4x2.5" backplanes lately, but if 6TB+ drives are coming out soon, maybe I can stop worrying and just wait a while more for the prices to drop. Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by hyper@pipedot.org on 2014-02-21 14:55 (#3T) Just wondering... will there be any issues accessing a 6TB drive from an external dock? Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-03-09 01:59 (#BB) Depends on the dock. Some of my older USB2 docks have a 2 TB limit, while by nearly-brand-new USB3 dock complains at anything over 3 TB.Because most onboard SATA ports allow hot swap, you can get a passive internal dock like this that will just pass the electrical signal through without messing with it.
Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by sgtcapslock@pipedot.org on 2014-02-19 08:53 (#2S) Context-sensitive news, just as I'm wondering what to do about my lack of storage!I've been using random 3.5" server drives with an external USB 3.0 dock for a while now. I've been really thinking about doing some kind of RAID setup with one of those 5.25"->4x2.5" backplanes lately, but if 6TB+ drives are coming out soon, maybe I can stop worrying and just wait a while more for the prices to drop. Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by hyper@pipedot.org on 2014-02-21 14:55 (#3T) Just wondering... will there be any issues accessing a 6TB drive from an external dock? Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-03-09 01:59 (#BB) Depends on the dock. Some of my older USB2 docks have a 2 TB limit, while by nearly-brand-new USB3 dock complains at anything over 3 TB.Because most onboard SATA ports allow hot swap, you can get a passive internal dock like this that will just pass the electrical signal through without messing with it.
Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by hyper@pipedot.org on 2014-02-21 14:55 (#3T) Just wondering... will there be any issues accessing a 6TB drive from an external dock? Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-03-09 01:59 (#BB) Depends on the dock. Some of my older USB2 docks have a 2 TB limit, while by nearly-brand-new USB3 dock complains at anything over 3 TB.Because most onboard SATA ports allow hot swap, you can get a passive internal dock like this that will just pass the electrical signal through without messing with it.
Re: Supposedly Seagate has a 6TB drive coming out soon too. (Score: 1) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-03-09 01:59 (#BB) Depends on the dock. Some of my older USB2 docks have a 2 TB limit, while by nearly-brand-new USB3 dock complains at anything over 3 TB.Because most onboard SATA ports allow hot swap, you can get a passive internal dock like this that will just pass the electrical signal through without messing with it.