The standard onerous drive won’t be promoting as effectively (opens in new tab) because it used to, however numerous that’s certainly as a result of ongoing shift in direction of flash options at decrease capacities. At increased capacities, the HDD stays king. Western Digital has introduced its newest 22TB onerous drives, so if it’s essential retailer all 58 seasons of Common Hospital (no judging!), you’ve received a much bigger possibility.
Western Digital is delivery 22TB WD Gold, WD Crimson Professional, and WD Purple Professional HDDs. These aren’t consumer-oriented drives precisely, however they’re retail drives. The WD Gold is designed for servers and workstations and so they’re constructed with reliability in thoughts. The WD Crimson Professional is a high-end NAS drive designed for 24×7 multi-user environments. Lastly, the WD Purple Professional is designed for multi-stream video recording functions.
All three drives have a 3.5-in type issue, a SATA 6Gbps interface, 512MB of cache and spin at 7200RPM. They’ve a 5 12 months guarantee and all are priced at $600 and might be purchased immediately from WD’s on-line retailer (opens in new tab) in the event you’re within the USA.
The three drives share the identical 10-platter 3.5-inch helium-filled platform that makes use of energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) know-how and triple-stage actuators (TSA). The 22TB Gold can attain a really spectacular sequential switch velocity of 291MB/s, whereas the Crimson Professional and Purple drives hit a decent 265MB/s.
Whereas these drives are spectacular and there is nothing stopping an finish consumer from shopping for them, it is a bit unhappy to see WD isn’t placing a lot give attention to inside drives for mainstream customers. Its Black collection of drives are those it promotes as gaming drives, however it tops out at 10TB. The mainstream and bulk storage optimized Blue collection drives are restricted to 8TB. WD clearly believes that SSDs are the very best resolution for avid gamers, and for pure gaming that is completely appropriate, however avid gamers don’t simply sport.
As of late, a shopper on the hunt for bulk storage is directed in direction of exterior drives. WD’s Components exterior onerous drives can be found in capacities as much as 20TB, and infrequently these might be discovered with steep reductions, making them good worth for storing enormous quantities of knowledge.
A part of me needs a 22TB inside drive, even when it takes me a number of years to fill it up. However there are many you who won’t ever be glad. If a NAS filled with 22TB drives isn’t sufficient, WD started delivery 26TB Ultrastar (opens in new tab) drives to hyperscale cloud prospects in June. In 2023 you’ll doubtless be capable of purchase retail variations. It’ll solely take a number of days to switch every little thing over…