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...

I think you are getting a bit confused between Hitachi and HGST.


https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-look-at-backblazes-toshiba-hard-drives/

TL;DR. HGST = WD, Hitachi = Toshiba

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.

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.

What drive is inside those? (other than a 5 TB drive I mean!)

ye I bought a few wd 5tb for £90 this I'd maybe buy for £120-£125 but no more.

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...

Mine was a MD04ACA500

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

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.

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.