New HGST NAS Hard Drive


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I stumbled across this drive today while looking for a new drive.

 

Other than the tech info on Amazon, I cannot find anything else.  I wonder if this is basically a 7200RPM WD Red drive. 

 

From Amazon:

The Deskstar NAS hard drive is a 7200 RPM 3.5-inch hard drive that provides an exceptional blend of reliability and performance, making it an ideal solution for consumer and commercial desktop NAS systems. This NAS-ready hard drive from HGST delivers media transfer rates that are as much as 20% faster than 5400 RPM drives and seek times less than 12ms. Furthermore, Deskstar NAS hard drives incorporate a rotational vibration sensor and achieve reliability of 1M hours MTBF. All HGST hard drives are designed to the highest quality standards with field-proven components. They are backed by HGST worldwide technical support and integration services, enabling customers around the globe to bring their products to market quickly.

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There's no entry for it in the HDD Platter Capacity database site (yet) ... so I can't confirm it;  but I suspect this is still an 800GB/platter unit with 5 platters.    No other manufacturer has achieved 7200rpm with their 4TB drives that use 1TB platters yet -- even the Enterprise class WD's and Seagates still use smaller platters.

 

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No other manufacturer has achieved 7200rpm with their 1TB platters yet -- even the Enterprise class WD's and Seagates still use smaller platters.

 

Do you mean specifically for NAS branded HD's? 

 

The Seagate ST3000DM001 and ST2000DM001 units I have are all 7200 rpm 1TB/platter units.  The Seagate NAS versions of these HD's run at 5900 rpm, but I'm sure that's more for power consumption/heat than due to an inability to run at 7200 rpm.

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No other manufacturer has achieved 7200rpm with their 1TB platters yet -- even the Enterprise class WD's and Seagates still use smaller platters.

 

Do you mean specifically for NAS branded HD's? 

 

The Seagate ST3000DM001 and ST2000DM001 units I have are all 7200 rpm 1TB/platter units.  The Seagate NAS versions of these HD's run at 5900 rpm, but I'm sure that's more for power consumption/heat than due to an inability to run at 7200 rpm.

 

No, what I actually meant to note was that 4TB drives using 1TB platters aren't yet available in 7200rpm units.  I corrected the post above to reflect that.

 

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