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: 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.