3TB | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:23:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png 3TB | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Toshiba’s 2.5” hard disk drive with 3TB capacity finally hits retail https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/toshibas-2-5-hard-disk-drive-with-3tb-capacity-finally-hits-retail/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/toshibas-2-5-hard-disk-drive-with-3tb-capacity-finally-hits-retail/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:19:48 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=269555 Toshiba Corp. has finally started to sell its 2.5” hard disk drive with extreme 3TB capacity in retail. The drive is not compatible with the vast majority of mobile personal computers, but can be installed into servers and network area storage (NAS) systems. The Toshiba MQ03ABB300 hard disk drive with 3TB capacity is based on …

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Toshiba Corp. has finally started to sell its 2.5” hard disk drive with extreme 3TB capacity in retail. The drive is not compatible with the vast majority of mobile personal computers, but can be installed into servers and network area storage (NAS) systems.

The Toshiba MQ03ABB300 hard disk drive with 3TB capacity is based on four perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) 750GB platters produced by Showa Denko K.K. (SDK). The HDD features 5400rpm spindle speed, 16MB cache, Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface, 512e advanced format and 5.56ms average latency time. The drive is very power efficient for its capacity: it typical power consumption is 1.7W, whereas its idle power consumption is 0.7W.

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Since the hard disk drive relies on four magnetic platters, it is 15mm thick – two times thicker than mainstream 2.5”/7mm HDDs – and cannot be installed into contemporary laptops. Toshiba positions its MQ03ABB300 as an ultimate solution for various storage systems that rely on 2.5” HDDs.

Toshiba introduced the record 3TB 2.5” hard disk drive in January and started to sample it with select customers in May. At present, the drive is used inside Toshiba’s Canvio Connect II 3TB as well as Western Digital’s My Passport Ultra external HDDs. This week the 3TB hard drive finally showed up in Japanese retail and is available for ¥22800 ($189, £125), reports Akiba PC Hotline. It is noteworthy that the pure drive costs more than external storage solutions on its base, which are available for $150 – $170 in the U.S.

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Although Toshiba’s MQ03ABB300 continues to be a unique HDD, there is also a 4TB 2.5”/15mm HDD model from Seagate Technology (which are sold under Samsung brand). The latter is used inside portable external storage devices only, whereas Toshiba’s product can be “officially” used everywhere as the company designed it with NAS (and vibrations) in mind.

While the Toshiba 3TB 2.5” hard drive yet has to make it to the U.K., it is possible to buy Western Digital My Passport Ultra 3TB external HDD for £123.95 inc VAT. The Samsung M3 4TB external drive is available for £149.95 inc VAT.

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KitGuru Says: If you own a NAS that uses 2.5” drives and is compatible with 15mm HDDs, then it is now possible to upgrade its capacity with the Toshiba MQ03ABB300 hard disk drives. They are not exactly affordable, but they are unique and designed for NAS environments, which means enhanced durability and reliability.

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Toshiba launches largest-capacity 2.5-inch 3TB HDD https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/toshiba-launches-largest-capacity-2-5-inch-hdd-with-3tb-capacity/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/toshiba-launches-largest-capacity-2-5-inch-hdd-with-3tb-capacity/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:52:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=229475 Toshiba Corp. has introduced the world’s highest-capacity 2.5” hard disk drive. The offering can hold 3TB of data and sets up a record, however, the drive may not be suitable for mainstream laptops. The Toshiba MQ03ABB300 hard disk drive with 3TB capacity is based on four perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) 750GB platters. Since the hard drive …

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Toshiba Corp. has introduced the world’s highest-capacity 2.5” hard disk drive. The offering can hold 3TB of data and sets up a record, however, the drive may not be suitable for mainstream laptops.

The Toshiba MQ03ABB300 hard disk drive with 3TB capacity is based on four perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) 750GB platters. Since the hard drive employs so many platters, it is 15mm thick, which means that it will not fit into the vast majority of laptops. According to Toshiba, the hard drive is designed for “personal external storage and space-constrained needs”.

The MQ03ABB300 hard disk drive features 5400rpm spindle speed, 16MB cache, Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface as well as 512e advanced formats. Toshiba declares 5.56ms average latency time. The drive typically consumes 1.7W and 0.7W in idle mode, which means that it is very power efficient for its capacity.

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The new hard drive for Toshiba is suitable for single and multi-drive HDD home and SMB storage enclosures by providing ample space for data storage. The power efficient design also makes it a suitable solution for USB connected external personal storage applications.

Sample shipments of the Toshiba MQ03ABB300 will begin in May. Pricing is unknown.

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KitGuru Says: Western Digital also has technology to integrate four platters into a 2.5” hard drive. Therefore, expect WD to introduce a similar 3TB 2.5” HDD in the foreseeable future.

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Norton costs more than 3TB storage solution https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/harrison/norton-costs-more-than-3tb-storage-solution/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/harrison/norton-costs-more-than-3tb-storage-solution/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 07:37:05 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=134176 The are plenty of ways to measure value in a given market – and each industry has its own quirks – but two offers landed in the KitGuru spam-sack this morning that, side-by-side, gave us pause. Even with the constant improvements to hard drive production cost efficiency, does this pairing seem right to you? Several …

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The are plenty of ways to measure value in a given market – and each industry has its own quirks – but two offers landed in the KitGuru spam-sack this morning that, side-by-side, gave us pause.
Even with the constant improvements to hard drive production cost efficiency, does this pairing seem right to you?

Several of the KitGuru systems are backed up onto a 2TB Seagate Expansion drive. These little chaps used to cost way more than £100, but the simple design and hardware reliability made them a bit of a favourite.

Now, we're seeing the 3TB variant in the market at just over £89 – complete with 2 year warranty and USB 3 data transfer rates.

At the same time, the same reseller has a special deal on Norton's security suite – which it is offering for £99.

Sure, Norton has included some additional internet security features and some cloud storage – but can it really be said to be worth £10 more than a physical 3TB hard drive?

For us, the 3TB drive and getting AVG for FREE seems like a much better deal, but what do we know?

No matter how good an anti-virus program is, it's hard to see how they can justify being £15 more than a 3TB drive
No matter how good an AV program is, it's hard to see how they can justify being £10 more than a 3TB drive

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KitGuru says: It's hard to think that something as simple and mundane as anti-virus software would cost anything like a 3TB drive. Especially when the AV on offer is far from being a clear market leader.

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Aria slashes pricing on 3TB and 4TB drives https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/harrison/aria-slashes-pricing-on-3tb-and-4tb-drives/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/harrison/aria-slashes-pricing-on-3tb-and-4tb-drives/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:05:21 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=103854 It was almost a year ago that the world's weather patterns combined to cause the tragedy of the Thailand floods. Alongside the loss of life, Western Digital's hard drive production was knocked for six and the world suffered huge increases in price. As KitGuru predicted, summer 2012 saw prices return to pre-tragedy levels, but now …

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It was almost a year ago that the world's weather patterns combined to cause the tragedy of the Thailand floods. Alongside the loss of life, Western Digital's hard drive production was knocked for six and the world suffered huge increases in price. As KitGuru predicted, summer 2012 saw prices return to pre-tragedy levels, but now they are going further.
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KitGuru sees the cuts at Aria and gets the urge to back up vital files.

While some high street stores would have been significantly more expensive, the majority of the retailers that a KitGuru reader is likely to consider managed to keep their pricing for a 1TB drive below £120 as 2011 drew to a close.

Now that all seems like a dim and distant memory. While Seasonic and Hitachi enjoyed a sudden surge in the price of smaller drives, the underlying market pressure has been on the move to much bigger capacities. Plants that will produce large volumes of 3TB and 4TB drives, have been in the pipeline for a long time and, small price hike to one side, their time has come.

All things considered, hard drive capacities really come down to the packing density of the surface material and how many discs you can spin at 7,200rpm without a data-corrupting wobble setting in. The disks do not really change that much, neither does the idea of a read/write head flickering across the surface. Only the density with which data is packed on a platter – and how many platters are spinning – are really relevant.

Hitachi's Deskstar 7k4000 for example, uses 5 platters to offer you 4TB of storage. When it first arrived on our shelves around the end of March, some UK stores wanted close to £300 for this monster drive. Today, you can pick up this high-capacity drive for just over £203 from Aria.

If you're not sure about that 4th terabyte, you can opt for a 3TB Seagate Barracuda for just over £108.

We did a quick check with Gigabyte's Mainboard Guru, Andrew Ditchburn, and he confirmed that all Gigabyte mainboards manufactured inside the past 2 years will handle 3TB & 4TB drives with ease

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KitGuru says: The scary part is that the 4TB will carry on dropping for a while yet. Aria seems to have taken the price lead right now, but even if other stores have been slower to implement price cuts – that doesn't mean they are not coming. We're still expecting to see a 4TB around the £150 mark by the end of the year. Fancy a PC with 8GB of RAM and 8TB of HDD?

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HDD prices drop – rejoice, rejoice https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/harrison/hdd-prices-drop-rejoice-rejoice/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/harrison/hdd-prices-drop-rejoice-rejoice/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:08:37 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=98514 The tragic loss of life during last year's Thailand floods was only the first in a series of steps that negatively impacted an economically wobbly world. As the price of hard drives increased by close to 300% at times, PC prices increased and specifications fell – something we'd not seen before. KitGuru cleans out its …

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The tragic loss of life during last year's Thailand floods was only the first in a series of steps that negatively impacted an economically wobbly world. As the price of hard drives increased by close to 300% at times, PC prices increased and specifications fell – something we'd not seen before. KitGuru cleans out its spam tray, but hangs on to one marketing message from eBuyer.

Back in January, one of KitGuru's operatives sent in a photograph of a Maplin shop window to our news team. It showed a 1TB Seagate drive on ‘special offer' at just £119.

Today's mass emailer from eBuyer has a 3TB Barracuda drive on offer at just £114. It's a moment that we all knew would come, but it did not look good at the start of the year.

On its own, this is a cool price drop – but it also opens the door for something else: A significant fall in the price of 4TB drives.

These monster storage devices recently launched with prices up to £400 from some stores, but we're now seeing them appear on sites like Scan for £263.

Very, very tempting at £114 - but we're really waiting for a 4TB price plummet

KitGuru says: We expect 4TB drives to drop below £200 shortly and they should, by the end of the year, be heading down closer to £150. While we love the sexy SSD action, we're also partial to a bit of big-drive-muscle.

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3TB memory cards – the shape of things to come ? https://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/3tb-memory-cards-the-shape-of-things-to-come/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/3tb-memory-cards-the-shape-of-things-to-come/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:22:17 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=37043 Journalists always get sent stuff. Every day, sometimes several times a day, you will get the bing bong from your local courier service as they drop off another package. Most of the time, it's kit for testing. Sometimes it's a promotional product. We were going to consign the latest 1GB Western Digital memory stick to …

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Journalists always get sent stuff. Every day, sometimes several times a day, you will get the bing bong from your local courier service as they drop off another package. Most of the time, it's kit for testing. Sometimes it's a promotional product. We were going to consign the latest 1GB Western Digital memory stick to ‘the pile', when it gave us a little inspiration. KitGuru thinks back to a simpler time, and projects forward with all seeing vision. Nice.

When the PC came into existence, it was supplied with 16 to 256kb of memory. The PC XT (eXtended Technology) offered 128KB to 640KB. By the time the IBM PC AT launched in 1984, the memory offered had grown to between 256KB and 16MB. Around the same time, scientists were investigating the possibility of memory devices in the 1GB range. Lots of research was devoted to organic memory being targeted with huge lasers. Not quite the thing you need in a hand-held camera.

Twenty years after the scientific community started serious investigation into what would be needed for a 1GB memory product, the world's first 1GB SD memory card launched. So the move from 1MB modules to 1GB products was in the ‘somewhat less than 2 decades' range.

If production advances continue at the same kind of rate going forward, we could expect the first 1TB memory card in the KitGuru Labs in about 8 years' time. The move from 1 to 2 to 3TB etc would then happen very quickly.

So while this Western Digital 1GB card was supplied as a way of promoting its new 3TB hard drive – it might actually be a strong indicator of the shape of things to come in the memory market place.

A world where ‘desktop' storage is measured in PetaBytes, memory cards are in the TeraByte range and internet access in the home is a symmetrical 100Gb/sec package for less than £49/$49/€49 a month.

Western Digital creates the world's first memory card with 3TB on it. Not the memory capacity - just the label.

KitGuru says: This ‘future' sounds like a good place to live – we're thinking of moving there soon.

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Hitachi ship worlds first enterprise class 3TB Sata Drive https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/carl/hitachi-ship-worlds-first-enterprise-class-3tb-sata-drive/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/carl/hitachi-ship-worlds-first-enterprise-class-3tb-sata-drive/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:22:00 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=30873 Hitachi are shipping the worlds first enterprise class 3TB hard drive. The Ultrastar 7k3000 is a 7,200rpm drive that is supplied with either 6 Gbit/sec. serial SCSI or SATA interfaces. The 3.5 inch 7K3000 replaces the A7K2000 and has 5 platters. It increases areal density however on those disks by 50%, from 400GB to 600GB. …

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Hitachi are shipping the worlds first enterprise class 3TB hard drive. The Ultrastar 7k3000 is a 7,200rpm drive that is supplied with either 6 Gbit/sec. serial SCSI or SATA interfaces.

The 3.5 inch 7K3000 replaces the A7K2000 and has 5 platters. It increases areal density however on those disks by 50%, from 400GB to 600GB. The guaranteed meantime between failure is 2 million hours and the SAS version is dual ported for added resiliency.

Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Hitachi GST said “Serial ATA drives typically have 1.2 million hour MTBFs. And typically, high-performance drives have higher reliability, but they also have a higher price. In looking at quality reports from our customers … we realized we were blowing away our own [specifications]. In the field we were meeting 2 million to 3 million MTBF.”

“The ability to guarantee 40% more usable life than drives that have 1.2 million MTBF ratings means data centers can reduce their overall total cost of ownership for servers and arrays using the hardware.” he continued.

The hard drive also requires 32% less wattage to power per gigabyte of capacity when compared with the previous model and it comes with native data encryption. They are also offering a 2TB version of the drive and both will be available mid 2011.

KitGuru says: Should be a big seller in business circles.

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Hitachi release 3TB Hard Drive https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/carl/hitachi-release-3tb-hard-drive/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/carl/hitachi-release-3tb-hard-drive/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:51:12 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=23766 It seems that very few companies are promoting their 3TB drives lately, and Hitachi have joined the ‘silent' launch with their new 3TB unit – the DeskStar 7K3000. The Deskstar 7K3000 has five platters @ 600GB each and is supplied at 7,200 rpm with 64MB of cache via a 6Gbp/s SATA interface. While this sounds …

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It seems that very few companies are promoting their 3TB drives lately, and Hitachi have joined the ‘silent' launch with their new 3TB unit – the DeskStar 7K3000.

The Deskstar 7K3000 has five platters @ 600GB each and is supplied at 7,200 rpm with 64MB of cache via a 6Gbp/s SATA interface. While this sounds like big news, it comes after Western Digital announced their own Caviar Green 3TB Drive with four platters.

There are many trains of thought as to why these launches are so understated – the main one being that many Windows based computers can't see drives bigger than 2TB without manual intervention. Motherboards with UEFI support don't need an HBA to correctly recognise the drive, otherwise a AHCI compliant host bus adapter is needed.

Rated speeds are said to be around 145 MB/s which is impressive for a mechanical drive, although it still falls way short of SSD performance drives.

Pricing has yet to be confirmed but expect a reasonable price difference between current 2TB models (around £80-90 inc vat in the UK).

KitGuru says: Many NAS systems also have yet to support drives over 2TB, so be aware !

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