Anyone tried the 6TB STBD6000100 yet?

[DaPlumber]

Since these drives are showing up as available and at $299 price points I suddenly became interested.

Has anyone tried these 6TB Seagates yet? With FreeNAS? Anyone got a "smartctl -x" output on one?

Comments, opinions, etc.? Anyone else hoping for a 6TB price war? :D

 

[cyberjock]

I bought 50 of them for an experiment, then threw them in the trash because I figured nobody would want them "used".

 

[Ericloewe]

6 platters? That must have some nasty power consumption. They also seem to not have the standard mounting holes...

As nice as a price war would be, Seagate and WD are waaayyy too comfortable with their common position at the moment and have been since the Thailand floods gave them an excuse to raise prices.

 

[DaPlumber]

I bought 50 of them for an experiment, then threw them in the trash because I figured nobody would want them "used".

I will be happy to take them off your hands and save you the disposal fee...:D

 

[DaPlumber]

6 platters? That must have some nasty power consumption. They also seem to not have the standard mounting holes...

The two issue would appear to be related. They're missing the "middle" holes because they needed the space for the platters. Not a lot of air gap there for compact mounts as far as I can see either. OTOH No Helium. Seen elsewhere that they're 11W Reading and 18.1W Full Throttle R/W. That's not lightweight, but I think I'm more concerned with cooling the beast. I can't seem to find a data sheet for some reason?

As nice as a price war would be, Seagate and WD are waaayyy too comfortable with their common position at the moment and have been since the Thailand floods gave them an excuse to raise prices.

I can dream...

 

[Ericloewe]

The two issue would appear to be related. They're missing the "middle" holes because they needed the space for the platters. Not a lot of air gap there for compact mounts as far as I can see either. OTOH No Helium. Seen elsewhere that they're 11W Reading and 18.1W Full Throttle R/W. That's not lightweight, but I think I'm more concerned with cooling the beast. I can't seem to find a data sheet for some reason?

I can dream...

Well, 18W work in, 18W heat out...
I think WD doesn't even publish power usage figures for their new drives, so I'm not surprised Seagate is trying to avoid publishing details about their stuff ("What they don't know can't hurt them enough to affect our bottom line"). Rumor has it they don't even publish the angular velocity.

 

[gpsguy]

The OP in this thread: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/slow-uploads-when-downloading.21013/ has a single 6Tb drive.

 

[joeschmuck]

I can't imagine how log it would take to resilver one of these if the pool were at 70% capacity. Also if that is the wattage, I don't see any savings in power usage over two 3TB or 4TB drives.

 

[DaPlumber]

I can't imagine how log it would take to resilver one of these if the pool were at 70% capacity. Also if that is the wattage, I don't see any savings in power usage over two 3TB or 4TB drives.

Um, let's see: It's slow with 100MB/s being reported in several places, so:
6TB = 6,000,000MB /100MB/s = 60,000s /60 = 1,000m /60 = 16:40 by back-of-the-envelope. Ouch.

What was that some canine-type was gnashing teeth :p about RAID5/Z1 being dead? Exhibit "A" right here.

Given that the $/TB and TDW/TB ratios aren't much different from current 4TB drives, I guess a third less bays isn't worth it right now.

 

[joeschmuck]

I'm sure the 6TB drives will come down in price but also the smaller drives will too.