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 insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org on 2014-02-19 10:10 (#2T)

I'm mostly in agreement with you, de-duplication and large files do make tools like rsync quite efficent, but there is a lot of "enterprise" use that doesn't fit into those categories, mailstores being a good example..