Looks like a good price for an Ironwolf NAS hard drive - £28.62 per TB
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Nth
20 Mar 1717#5
I came here to see if there was an "eggs in one basket" comment and bam, there it is.
wolf33055 to Nth
20 Mar 176#6
But where is the "I would never buy a Seagate drive" comment
paul_merton
20 Mar 176#4
The too many eggs in one basket argument is so stupid when applied to hard disks. If you needed to store 8TB of data, you'd be equally stupid to buy 2 x 4TB disks without bothering with RAID *and* backups.
Oneday77
21 Mar 176#8
Right next to the my mate bought one and it failed in a ball of fire 3 seconds after install.
Whereas he has 3hundred thousand WD drives and they are fine.
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Gerry557
20 Mar 172#1
hot, is 8 the new 4
orangelemon
20 Mar 171#2
amazing price for a 8TB drive, especially when I remember my first HDD was 85MB and contained Windows 3.1
GreatBallsofFire to orangelemon
21 Mar 17#18
8TB drive prices actually seem to have increased appreciably over the last year or so. I bought a Seagate Backup Plus 8TB External unit for £190 last May. Can't get one for anything close to that today - Amazon are asking £352!!
I guess there just isn't anything better that's come along in the consumer segment to force prices down ... 10TB drives are still Enterprise products.
Slim2k
20 Mar 174#3
These large HDD's scare me, egg's in one basket spring's to mind for the majority of people buying them.
£450 to RAID is still an excellent price for an archive of this size though.
fanpages to Slim2k
21 Mar 171#20
The misuse/abuse of apostrophes scares me.
paul_merton
20 Mar 176#4
The too many eggs in one basket argument is so stupid when applied to hard disks. If you needed to store 8TB of data, you'd be equally stupid to buy 2 x 4TB disks without bothering with RAID *and* backups.
plewis00 to paul_merton
21 Mar 17#23
This. And also I'm intrigued to know what user generated and irreplaceable data consumes that amount of space (beyond SME upwards sized businesses). My mission critical company data uses less than 1GB and is stored across many locations.
I think I'd be right in saying that most data of this size is multimedia and that most of that is commercial films and music which can be replaced. Obviously if you're a fringe case (e.g. Graphic designer, freelance musician, etc.) then you'll have many backups and cost becomes less of a prime concern.
Nth
20 Mar 1717#5
I came here to see if there was an "eggs in one basket" comment and bam, there it is.
wolf33055 to Nth
20 Mar 176#6
But where is the "I would never buy a Seagate drive" comment
Oneday77 to Nth
21 Mar 171#7
Who needs 8TB when 640kB is all you will ever need.
OrribleHarry to Nth
21 Mar 172#13
I highly recommend all eggs in one basket. I mean have you ever tried carrying two baskets round Asda it's just silly, I much prefer all eggs in one trolley :smile:
Oneday77
21 Mar 176#8
Right next to the my mate bought one and it failed in a ball of fire 3 seconds after install.
Whereas he has 3hundred thousand WD drives and they are fine.
jasee
21 Mar 17#9
What needs to happen is for these drives to be incorporated in external USB drives, that's the way I've almost always got my cheapest 4T drives.
Mr.No
21 Mar 17#10
Great deal, heat added. Cheapest these have ever been.
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Whereas he has 3hundred thousand WD drives and they are fine.
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I guess there just isn't anything better that's come along in the consumer segment to force prices down ... 10TB drives are still Enterprise products.
£450 to RAID is still an excellent price for an archive of this size though.
I think I'd be right in saying that most data of this size is multimedia and that most of that is commercial films and music which can be replaced. Obviously if you're a fringe case (e.g. Graphic designer, freelance musician, etc.) then you'll have many backups and cost becomes less of a prime concern.
Whereas he has 3hundred thousand WD drives and they are fine.