I've been eyeing this one up for the past few months for my upgrade to Windows 10 and finally bit the bullet this morning. Cheapest it has ever been on Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter):
Also this is one of, if not the fastest drive of its capacity from what I've read (with much better reliability than the equivalent Seagate), not to mention at a much lower price.
EDIT: not in stock now, but is due to ship on the 28th (day after tomorrow) according to Amazon.
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zomgwtfbbq
26 May 1611#4
1.This HDD is top of the range, comparable to WD Black and enterprise-rated drives, not value oriented external HDDs
2. It is much faster rated than your 5TB (double the cache and much faster read/write speeds), and doesn't have/risk having the forced sleep firmware issues that your external one does. Some of the external 5TBs had 64MB cache and much slower transfer speeds, so if someone doesn't want to play the HDD lottery and wants the extra space, this drive would make sense.
Also remember that your external drive has no warranty whatsoever out of its caddy, while this one comes with a 2 year warranty, if I'm not mistaken...
aceuk
27 May 164#10
I think you are getting a bit confused between Hitachi and HGST.
Hitachi's HDD division are owned by WD and therefore no longer exist or manufacture their lines of drives (and haven't for a long time). In fact, if you read the forums/reviews, people have brought up the worrying fact that WD currently only use Hitachi's name as the dumping ground for lower-binned drives to kill off the brand name as quickly as possible (very similar to what Seagate did to butcher Samsung's line-up), so your point no longer stands in that regard.
And adding to all the above, Toshiba use WD's plants and equipment to manufacture their drives, so the point of WD being more reliable is also non-existant now.
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refaey
26 May 16#1
I bought the external 5tb for £105 a while ago and took the drive out (it's £109 now on Amazon) - much better value per gigabyte.
spannerzone
26 May 16#2
What drive is inside those? (other than a 5 TB drive I mean!)
revolver31
26 May 162#3
ye I bought a few wd 5tb for £90 this I'd maybe buy for £120-£125 but no more.
zomgwtfbbq
26 May 1611#4
1.This HDD is top of the range, comparable to WD Black and enterprise-rated drives, not value oriented external HDDs
2. It is much faster rated than your 5TB (double the cache and much faster read/write speeds), and doesn't have/risk having the forced sleep firmware issues that your external one does. Some of the external 5TBs had 64MB cache and much slower transfer speeds, so if someone doesn't want to play the HDD lottery and wants the extra space, this drive would make sense.
Also remember that your external drive has no warranty whatsoever out of its caddy, while this one comes with a 2 year warranty, if I'm not mistaken...
Asura
26 May 16#5
Mine was a MD04ACA500
mbuckhurst
26 May 162#6
So almost identical performance then :-)
I've got 2 external Toshiba 5TBs one is coming up to its first anniversary, hasn't missed a beat, I've not removed it, since my raid setup can't handle bigger than 3TB, but on USB3 the performance is pretty good, certainly enough for a server.
I got mine from Bespoke in one of their price match deals, after cashback cost me around £70 ;-)
mike
vulcanproject
27 May 161#7
Nice storage drive, although speed is not really an issue if you use it as such. Reliability is more my concern, Toshiba's seem average and comparable to WD etc. Hitachi is always by far the best in this aspect, but you'll pay more for it.
zomgwtfbbq
27 May 163#8
Hitachi's HDD division are owned by WD and therefore no longer exist or manufacture their lines of drives (and haven't for a long time). In fact, if you read the forums/reviews, people have brought up the worrying fact that WD currently only use Hitachi's name as the dumping ground for lower-binned drives to kill off the brand name as quickly as possible (very similar to what Seagate did to butcher Samsung's line-up), so your point no longer stands in that regard.
And adding to all the above, Toshiba use WD's plants and equipment to manufacture their drives, so the point of WD being more reliable is also non-existant now.
Opening post
http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Toshiba-X300-7200RPM-128MB-Drive/product/B013J7I8WM?context=browse
Also this is one of, if not the fastest drive of its capacity from what I've read (with much better reliability than the equivalent Seagate), not to mention at a much lower price.
EDIT: not in stock now, but is due to ship on the 28th (day after tomorrow) according to Amazon.
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2. It is much faster rated than your 5TB (double the cache and much faster read/write speeds), and doesn't have/risk having the forced sleep firmware issues that your external one does. Some of the external 5TBs had 64MB cache and much slower transfer speeds, so if someone doesn't want to play the HDD lottery and wants the extra space, this drive would make sense.
Also remember that your external drive has no warranty whatsoever out of its caddy, while this one comes with a 2 year warranty, if I'm not mistaken...
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-look-at-backblazes-toshiba-hard-drives/
TL;DR. HGST = WD, Hitachi = Toshiba
And adding to all the above, Toshiba use WD's plants and equipment to manufacture their drives, so the point of WD being more reliable is also non-existant now.
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2. It is much faster rated than your 5TB (double the cache and much faster read/write speeds), and doesn't have/risk having the forced sleep firmware issues that your external one does. Some of the external 5TBs had 64MB cache and much slower transfer speeds, so if someone doesn't want to play the HDD lottery and wants the extra space, this drive would make sense.
Also remember that your external drive has no warranty whatsoever out of its caddy, while this one comes with a 2 year warranty, if I'm not mistaken...
I've got 2 external Toshiba 5TBs one is coming up to its first anniversary, hasn't missed a beat, I've not removed it, since my raid setup can't handle bigger than 3TB, but on USB3 the performance is pretty good, certainly enough for a server.
I got mine from Bespoke in one of their price match deals, after cashback cost me around £70 ;-)
mike
And adding to all the above, Toshiba use WD's plants and equipment to manufacture their drives, so the point of WD being more reliable is also non-existant now.