8 Terabyte Hard Drive

Nice to see higher capacities coming available a bit faster again

Still it'll probably be a while before there's a NAS drive with that capacity for consumer use.

The 8 TB drive appears to be limited to select customers at the moment, and I'm not seeing pricing.

Definitely its a good trend for NAS owners.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/ ... -hoarders/

Obligatory will it work with (insert NAS model here)?????

fdisk -l returns this for all drives :

GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'!

So it looks like the readyNAS use GPT addressing so you are good for some time in drive limits... 9.4 ZetaBytes... I think there is some room for 8Tb drives...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

There might be some other concern for compatibility though. Anyway you are stuck with HCL if you want official support.

There are certainly other factors.

Some of the new very large drives are slightly over sized, with some screw mounts in non-standard places. They might not fit properly - and might block air flow.

Some of the enterprise drives draw a lot of power, raising PSU and temperature concerns.

Though home NAS versions of these drives would be great, and (if past history repeats) will also put downward price pressure on the smaller models.

my post was mostly in jest, however for the record;


All x86 and ARM devices should support current and any future GPT based hard drive sizes.

All legacy SPARC devices (ie original nv/nv+/etc) do not have GPT compatiblity and will not work properly with any drive more than 2tb.

WD announces 10 tb drives;


http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... 8tb-drive/

They're using SMR in the 10 TB model - which increases storage capacity by about 25% over the perpendicular recording being used today (e.g, the 8 TB version).

Though several reports say that SMR drives are particularly sensitive to vibration, which would be an issue in the NAS.

sandisk is of course suggesting you wait for their 8 and 16 TB SSDs, envisioning price parity with hard drives in 2017.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-d ... ear-after/

That would be very interesting if it turns out to be true. Though I've seen analyst reports suggesting that won't happen nearly that soon.

It's great to see higher capacities. It both drives smaller drives price down and allow for other alternatives than to add another NAS or buy a bigger one when you run out of space.
The thing is, HDD have been around for quite some time and it's time to move on, so clearly SSD is the new king here, it just needs a little push for price and maximal capacity. I think holographic and DNA storage are quite promising too but still in early stages, I'd like to see them developed too.
I've always wondered why they didn't actually do some SSD with 3.5 inches size and two layers with less miniaturised chips on them, it should drive the prices down while remaining compatible with existing NAS, shouldn't it ? Given the actual heat of an SSD, this shouldn't be a problem and making 8Tb drives should be easy with that technology (although NAND has a price, even the cheapest one).