Yeah, I HATE 512Be, because you have to worry about the stupid alignment issues -- I want either 4Kn or 512Bn, and at this day and age I'd prefer 4kn. All modern platforms support 4Kn, it's time to completely eliminate 512Be.
Investments in improving mechanical hard drives have declined with the rise of solid state disks and the movement of spending away from HDD products. Its not likely we'll see rapid advancement of mechanical drive capacity again unless or until there's some sort of crazy breakthrough that will vastly improve performance. Without research dollars and desire to push the boundries, I just don't think its going to happen.
*hands Loli a lollipop* Just relax. It'll be okay.
So, if I am considering these for use in an external hard drive enclosure, do any of you feel that the price is justified, that these are worth the investment, versus other hard drives, if my goal is to have them last as long as possible and work as reliably as possible? I would be purchasing at least 3 or 4, with the intent that they last several years.
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cygnus1 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
"The WD Purple 10 TB drive (WD100PURZ) is based on the HelioSeal platform featuring seven PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) platters"All modern spinning drives are PMR. When writing this up, it really should be noted if it's shingled or non-shingled PMR.
WithoutWeakness - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
"Shingled PMR" is generally just called shingled magnetic recording or SMR. I don't think I've ever seen anyone refer to SMR as shingled PMR.takeshi7 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
The jargon I've heard is Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR)cbm80 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
Are the Purple drives really 4Kn? The spec sheet doesn't say, so where does this info come from?extide - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
Yeah, I HATE 512Be, because you have to worry about the stupid alignment issues -- I want either 4Kn or 512Bn, and at this day and age I'd prefer 4kn. All modern platforms support 4Kn, it's time to completely eliminate 512Be.Lolimaster - Friday, April 14, 2017 - link
WHERE IS HAMR DRIVES, WHERE?????????????????????????We should already have 15-30TB by now.
BrokenCrayons - Friday, April 14, 2017 - link
Investments in improving mechanical hard drives have declined with the rise of solid state disks and the movement of spending away from HDD products. Its not likely we'll see rapid advancement of mechanical drive capacity again unless or until there's some sort of crazy breakthrough that will vastly improve performance. Without research dollars and desire to push the boundries, I just don't think its going to happen.*hands Loli a lollipop* Just relax. It'll be okay.
Rictorhell - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - link
So, if I am considering these for use in an external hard drive enclosure, do any of you feel that the price is justified, that these are worth the investment, versus other hard drives, if my goal is to have them last as long as possible and work as reliably as possible? I would be purchasing at least 3 or 4, with the intent that they last several years.