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.

New Bigger Drives = Cheaper Smaller Drives (Score: 2)

by spallshurgenson@pipedot.org on 2014-02-23 16:50 (#55)

Yes! I needed to upgrade my 2GB drives.

'Cause it's not just the storage that needs to be upgraded, but the backup as well. That doubles the cost. So the lower the cost the better.

Yay for the constant advance of technology!