Toshiba 5TB HDD = $144

[neo]

Toshiba 5TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm, 128MB Cache, 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (PH3500U-1I72) $144

On Amazon & B&H Photo. Free shipping on both sites.

Amazon.com: Toshiba 5TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm, 128MB Cache, 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (PH3500U-1I72): Computers & Accessories

Toshiba 5TB Desktop 3.5'' Internal Hard Drive PH3500U-1I72 B&H

 

[T_Minus]

Awesome!

I got 4 or 5 of these already, might have to add some more!! Thanks Neo

 

[RandyC]

These are still $145 on Newegg. I am thinking of getting some of these, or maybe some of the cheap 2TB WD RE4 drives that have been posted recently.

TOSHIBA PH3500U-1I72 5TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache Serial ATA 3.0 (SATA) Desktop Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com

Can anyone comment on reliability, heat, and/or performance of the Toshibas?

 

[Aluminum]

Newegg has free shipping and volume discounts on these, so tempting to populate all 8 ports on a spare LSI 2008 I have lying here, would be a great cheap 30TB usable Z2 array...

They are also not in as many states as amazon

I did pick up a pair for a local R1 mirror on a soon-to-be windows 10 box, going to try out ReFS. I prefer these guys over WD's own models, toshiba is just selling from one of the old hitachi plants and it has a good track record. (WD brands their half with HGST, their in-house is doing too much dumb artificial firmware segmenting) Seagate has had far too many bad models in the last 5 years or so for me to even consider.

Spinning rust still sucks and industry wide half-life is ~6 years, never trust a single drive w/o backups.

 

[herby]

I know Toshiba 2 and 3TB disks are built using Hitachi's 7K3000 design but I've read that the 4 and 5TB disks are a Toshiba original. Does anyone know how loud the new drives are compared to the old?

 

[briandm81]

Will these drives time out on a 9265-8i?

 

[PnoT]

Will these drives time out on a 9265-8i?

I'm curious about this as well.

On a side note... B&H just had another round of their $129 5TB USB external drives which are either WD RED or WD GREENS. I just picked up 4 more as the first time around I got all REDs