The "I just bought..." thread.

[Brainonska511]

A Western Digital Blue 4 TB spinner (recertified) direct. I needed another larger hard drive to back up a bunch of blu-ray and DVDs from my HTPC, and the 1 TB WD Blue drive in my desktop is nearly full from that partial backup process. Didn't seem like a bad deal to buy recertified and save $30-$40 vs brand new.

 

[sdifox]

A Western Digital Blue 4 TB spinner (recertified) direct. I needed another larger hard drive to back up a bunch of blu-ray and DVDs from my HTPC, and the 1 TB WD Blue drive in my desktop is nearly full from that partial backup process. Didn't seem like a bad deal to buy recertified and save $30-$40 vs brand new.

How is 4TB spinner considered large these days?

 

[Brainonska511]

How is 4TB spinner considered large these days?

Larger than what I currently had in my home.

Sure, you can get a 10 or larger one, but I didn't need something that big.

 

[sdifox]

Larger than what I currently had in my home.

Sure, you can get a 10 or larger one, but I didn't need something that big.

Seagate released a 36TB one.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Crazy how they can keep bringing the density down like that. Seems 10TB was considered huge not that long ago.

 

[Charmonium]

Crazy how they can keep bringing the density down like that. Seems 10TB was considered huge not that long ago.

Truth!

The "normal" 2TB drives are under 40 or 50 bucks. But I wanted something very fast. The one I got does R/W at a blistering 1k MB/s. So it cost about 4x the normal price.