Massive 10TB Capacity with WD Red 10TB NAS Hard Drives

[William Harmon]

We review the new, massive, WD Red 10TB drives and put them through our NAS performance testing suite to see just how well they perform

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[gigatexal]

Looks like they are 4 cents a gig. WD Red WD100EFAX 10TB 5400 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" NAS Hard Drive Bare Drive - Newegg.com

 

[William]

Nice sale on those !
These are really sweet drives.

 

[T_Minus]

wow $370 for 10tb yaye prices coming down.

gonna be sweeeeet when they hit 200$


the irony really is HDD keep getting bigger, but our file sizes do too so we're not really storing more pictures or videos LOL

 

[gigatexal]

Yeah 4K h265 feature length movies will be what size? Likely bigger than the 1080p things

 

[T_Minus]

lol, i think we'll actually save space with h265 of course comparing to 264 of same format but everything else "raw" is obv. >

 

[William]

Well Blu-Ray ISO's are 43.7 GB's

 

[T_Minus]

Well Blu-Ray ISO's are 43.7 GB's

Blu-Ray 1080P or 4K?
Movie?

They all matter, I'm generalizing when I say it's obvious that 265 will yield a smaller file size than 264, the ironic part of it all is we're all going to 4K (or more) rwhich is obv. much > file size than 1080p so we get better encoding optimization, more storage capacity on 1 drive yet our files are still LARGER than last generation. (due to increase in quality in this example.)

This is what I mean by my first post more capacity, sure but relative to storage needs not really.

 

[William]

I only have one Blu-Ray title, Guardians of the Galaxy.
I ripped it to my NAS, that's how much space it takes. I believe its 4K, looks very nice on my displays.

You are correct with file sizes and now many of us store tons of movies which eats up a lot of space.

 

[Blinky 42]

Note that a lot of the 10TB drives are $399 today (at least on on NewEgg) - I have 6 of the Seagate Baracuda Pros Seagate 10TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive-Newegg.com and I would go with them over any of the the NAS versions for the same price to get higher x-fer rates with the 7.2k vs 5k RPM. Also 5yr vs 3yr warranty and 4x the cache on the drive.
It still takes a LONG time to load 10TB of data on the drives either way.

 

[gigatexal]

5400 rpm ones should be quieter though for us who don’t have data centers or colos and instead put our servers in bedrooms or offices.