Seagate 30TB HDD

[BFG10K]

Seagate launches biggest hard drive ever — 30TB Exos Mozaic 3+ HDD can store more than 1,000 Blu-ray movies and, yes, everyone will be able to buy them

Seagate is first to reach 30TB barrier, just over three years after the first 20TB hard drives appeared

www.techradar.com

Will be available to consumers as a normal drive. 3TB/platter should give it really fast sequential performance for an HDD.

 

[Igo69]

That's not enough for downloading the whole internet.

 

[Shmee]

Thing is you will need multiple of them for an array. I would say 4 minimum...of course you will want to use mirroring or ZFS RAIDZ1/2 etc.

 

[gdansk]

RAIDZ1 on 30TB drives is very risky. That rebuild time is enough to kill another.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's pretty crazy. Recently upgraded 2 of my raid arrays bringing me to around 40TB of space. Crazy to think that only 4 of these drives in raid 10 would get me well past that. Or 3 in raid 5 if I'm brave.

 

[manly]

It's crazy for consumers to be paying $300+ per drive for spinning rust, but fortunately there are plenty of server pulls available for cheap if you need a RAID array on a modest budget:

14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished) $110 + Free Shipping

goHardDrive via Newegg has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Internal Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE604, Refurbished) on sale for $109.99. Shipping is free. Thanks to C ...

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EDIT:
To be clear, obviously these won't be $300ish anytime soon. I'm referring to sale prices you're seeing now for 20TB NAS drives, of which you'd need to purchase at least two. Spinning rust is cheap on a per TB basis, but that doesn't help if you don't need 16TB+ in one drive.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah $300, that's actually really cheap. The 20TB drives are around $600 if not on sale here in Canada.

Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB Hard Drive 3.5

Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB Hard Drive 3.5" Internal SATA (SATA/600)(ST20000NT001)

www.canadacomputers.com

 

[Shmee]

RAIDZ1 on 30TB drives is very risky. That rebuild time is enough to kill another.

Hmm fair point, that could take some time lol.

It's crazy for consumers to be paying $300+ per drive for spinning rust, but fortunately there are plenty of server pulls available for cheap if you need a RAID array on a modest budget:

14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished) $110 + Free Shipping

goHardDrive via Newegg has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Internal Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE604, Refurbished) on sale for $109.99. Shipping is free. Thanks to C ...

slickdeals.net

EDIT:
To be clear, obviously these won't be $300ish anytime soon. I'm referring to sale prices you're seeing now for 20TB NAS drives, of which you'd need to purchase at least two. Spinning rust is cheap on a per TB basis, but that doesn't help if you don't need 16TB+ in one drive.

Yeah those HC530s from goharddrive are pretty neat, but need to make sure you have the right adapters for your PSU. Something to do with the 3.3V vs 3.5V power pins.

 

[Oyeve]

Wow, 450 for 30TB. I remember spending 400 on a 32 Meg drive in the 80s. Megs, not Gig. Freaking MEGS! And it took 20 hours to low-level format.