Does anyone know what 5TB drive is in here?

[DolphinsDan]

I was looking for 4TB wd reds when I saw 5TB drives at shockingly low prices:
The $189 Seagate option - Amazon.com: Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive (STBV5000100): Computers & Accessories

The $218 Seagate option - Amazon.com: Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0 (STDT5000100): Computers & Accessories

The Toshiba one is $185 - Amazon.com: Toshiba Canvio Desktop External Hard Drive (HDWC240XK3J1): Computers & Accessories

These are not bad considering 4TB drives start around $150 these days. Are any of these good enough drives inside? I mean $10 more for 1TB extra seems like a good idea over the 4TB red

 

[Clownius]

WD Red's have a history of being reliable NAS drives.

Drives shucked from external cases have a history of being unreliable cheap green drives.

Personally i like my data too much. Removing the drive from the case generally voids the warranty too. So your asking to loose your data and the drive IMO

 

[Chuckleb]

These are based on the Shingle Magnetic Recording (SMR) so you should look that up as well. I remember some people concerned about reads I think.

 

[Patrick]

I wonder what drive is in the Toshiba.

 

[1010]

I wonder what drive is in the Toshiba.

According to a poster on slickedeals.net, the drive inside Toshiba 5TB external (HDWC250XK3J1) is ..

Form Factor：      3.5"
Brand：            Toshiba
Model：            MD04ACA500
MPN：              HDETR10GEA51
Storage Capacity： 5 TB
Interface：        SATA III
Rotation Speed：   7200 RPM
Cache：            128 MB
Manufactured：     Philippines

Rehosted image, cropped and obscured serial to protect the original poster

This model is available for sale in Japan and Australia

[新製品]東芝 MG04ACA500E (2014年2月22日)
MD04ACA500 価格・比較｜東芝/TOSHIBA｜[coneco.net] コネコネット
MD04ACA500 5TB Serial ATA [MD04ACA500] ｜秋葉館.com Mac専門店
MD04ACA500 《送料無料》 - 3.5 SerialATA - パソコン・ゲームPC・自作パソコンなら【TSUKUMO】-自作PCを作ろう-


Benchmark posted to a Japanese website

http://anago.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/jisaku/1393420294/179

179 ：Socket774：2014/03/25(火) 17:27:32.01 ID:MuqT6cTL.net
安物の方の5Tだけどﾍﾟﾀﾘ
通常フォーマット8時間で終わった、うれしい誤算

MD04ACA500
Sequential Read : 207.989 MB/s
Sequential Write : 204.261 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 70.908 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 115.993 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.794 MB/s [ 193.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.862 MB/s [ 454.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.986 MB/s [ 484.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.850 MB/s [ 451.5 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [Z: 0.0% (0.2/4657.4 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2014/03/25 3:45:58
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

 

[HellDiverUK]

Drives shucked from external cases have a history of being unreliable cheap green drives.

Personally i like my data too much. Removing the drive from the case generally voids the warranty too. So your asking to loose your data and the drive IMO

On the other hand, I've found drives shucked from external drives to be more reliable, because they haven't been bashed about bare by a 16 year old youth in a warehouse, then kicked around bare inside a cardboard box by an uninterested courier. Your external drive leaves China/Philippines/Timbuktu in a rubber mount, inside a plastic box, inside packing, inside another cardboard box. That's 4 layers of protection not available on a bare drive.

Yes, you may lose your warranty, but I've never had a shucked drive fail, and even if I did the amount I've saved over the years will easily buy a new drive which I can fill from my backups.