Anyone going to Seagate at CES?

[boed]

I'm curious if they'll have their 4TB or 5TB drives. Rumor has it they were to release some 3.5" 4TB and 5TB hybrid drives this year.

 

[boed]

Anyone going to CES today or tomorrow?

 

[lsv]

5tb hybrid dear god yes.

 

[boed]

5tb hybrid dear god yes.

You went to the booth and saw them? Did they give an estimated release date? I think it was originally February but I would imagine now due to the flood it is delayed.

 

[Concillian]

I don't think the flood should necessarily impact new releases. Drive design centers and R&D are not in Thailand. misc components may be impacted, but at pre-release development stage, the need for those should be pretty low.

 

[boed]

I couldn't say. I would imagine some of the parts they use from their many suppliers would be common between old and the new hybrid drives. I was just hoping for any info - 2 months or 8 months, just some timeline as I really need some new larger drives.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

if you need larger drives, you should look into a NAS. I worked for 5-6 years with a 4 bay tower and I kept swapping drives out for newer ones. 320gb => 640gb => 1TB => 1.5TB => 2TB. It's a waste when you think about it. So finally I said screw that and built a NAS. LOL. Too bad the Thailand flood hit halfway through and I only have 6 drives instead of 10.

 

[boed]

I'll probably build an array in time. When I rip all my movies, I estimate it will take 30 TB of storage so I'm still waiting for larger drives before I build my array as the noise from so many drives would be distracting.