Samsung 30 TB Enterprise SSD
24 February 2018
Samsung recently announced mass production of a 30.72TB SAS SSD, the PM1643. The drive combines "32 of the new 1TB...
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017
08 February 2018
Backblaze recently published their yearly stats for hard drive failures for 2017. It covers the latest rate of replacement of...
Historical Cost of Computer Memory and Storage
17 December 2017
Following up on the last post, here is the long view of cost of computer storage. In the categories magnetic disks; RAM; and flash / SSD, it plots the cheapest...
Storage prices – end of 2017
10 December 2017
HDD Since last year's update, there are a few interesting newcomers in the very large HDD section, including 10 TB...
QNAP TS-431P NAS
19 December 2016
Tasked with setting up another NAS solution, I went for the simple 4-bay QNAP TS-431P, since the previous QNAP gave a good impression. This one does not have HDMI; in...
12 TB helium and 14TB helium + SMR announced
07 December 2016
HGST has just announced a new helium filled drive of 12 TB. The increase in capacity comes from an impressive and unexpected 8 platter design. Meanwhile, Western Digital forecasts that...
Storage prices - end of 2016
17 November 2016
The last half-year have seen few movements in spinning disk prices, and actually some have gotten a few coins more expensive. It is still the 8 TB SMR Seagate drive...
Backblaze: SMART stats to predict hard drive failure
09 October 2016
Over the years, Backblaze has published several interesting reports and statistics on their harddrive performance and failures. In their latest post, they look at which SMART metrics they monitor and...
Samsung boasts about its SSDs
29 September 2016
In a few recent articles at Tom's Hardware, Paul Alcorn has summarized the latest roadmap and product visions from Samsung, including an upcoming new form factor to replace the Intel...
QNAP NAS and autofs auto mount
06 September 2016
After considering multiple options to cover a HTPC and a NAS, I finally went with the combined "living room" QNAP HS-251+ NAS earlier this year. I'll leave the reviews to...
Storage prices
30 June 2016
As predicted in January, there have indeed been a number of exciting releases and announcements so far this year: Samsung finally launched their 15TB SSD; Intel brought 16nm TLC SSD...
Storage prices
25 January 2016
There are number of new interesting storage alternatives on the market these days, and more are set to arrive throughout 2016. The large 8 TB SMR Seagate drives, both internal...
Historical Cost of Computer Memory and Storage
27 December 2015
During 2015 there have been considerable progress on both storage and memory fronts, including larger capacity, faster SSD drives and finally a shift to DDR4 DIMM. However, the 30 year...
Storage prices
20 June 2015
Although the prices on medium sized, 3 to 4 TB, spinnings disks remain about constant since the beginning of the year, a new drive has jumped right to the top...
Storage prices
25 January 2015
Since last September, there have been only minor changes in most storage prices. Some have actually gone up, and most price changes are due to currency exchange rates. For spinning...
100TB HDD by 2025?
27 November 2014
ComputerWorld is reporting on a roadmap from the industry consortium ASTC where they predict magnetic hard drives will reach 100 TB by 2025. This is based on the figure below,...
SSDs last a long time
28 September 2014
At 24 GB/day, or 8.8 TB/year, it would take 114 years to reach 1 PB. Several SSDs have gone past that point, and still work fine. Last year, I wrote...
Storage prices
13 September 2014
If you need massive storage, 6 TB disks are already very competitively priced. However, the 3 TB WD Green still gives the most GB per coin. Amongst SSD, several 1...
Why 10TB drives could be bad news
11 September 2014
In this week's news, Hitachi GST (HGST) announced a 10 TB HDD. It ups the earlier announcement by Seagate of a 8 TB disk. Although both companies claim the disks...
Seagate brags about 8 TB disks
29 July 2014
It was only a few days ago I mentioned Western Digital's new 6 TB disks. It seems Seagate got nervous, and are now claiming to "ship" 8 TB disks. However,...
6 TB disks, 1.2 TB platters finally here
26 July 2014
Earlier this week, Anandtech could report that Wester Digital has finally taken the next incremental step in spinning HDD size. The WD Red series will now come in sizes of...
Historical Cost of Computer Memory and Storage
13 July 2014
I've finally gotten around to update the graph and data at hblok.net/storage. Since it has been a while since last time, I thought I would be left with a gap...
Storage prices
02 February 2014
The new year has not seen major changes to the prices of spinning disks. However, on the SSD side, there are some interesting news, with Samsung really gearing up. Their...
Storage prices
13 October 2013
4 TB is finally at the top now, giving most storage for money. Both the Western Digital and Seagate drives are priced at 144 Euros, making them the new ideal...
Storage prices
30 April 2013
The wobbly economy seems to have stalled the improvements in prices seen at the beginning of the year, and certain SSD and memory offerings are now slightly more expensive than...
Concerns about SSD reliability debunked (again)
03 March 2013
Update: Empirical evidence to go with the theoretical numbers. Summary: It checks out; SSDs last a very long time. Background The myths about how you should use an SSD, and...
Historical Cost of Computer Memory and Storage
13 February 2013
Computer storage, primary and secondary memory, has seen a tremendous phase of development over the last fifty years. As new technology has been brought to the market prices have continued...
5 TB disks are (almost) here - why duopolies are bad for you
29 January 2013
I'm a bit late to the leaked news about the 5 TB Western Digital drives in the beginning of December 2012, however in my defence, I got bored of searching...
Storage Prices
09 December 2012
As Geoff Gasior pointed out in Tech Report last month, 3.5" HDD prices are still significantly higher than pre-flod last year. Interestingly, some of the 2.5" drivers are cheaper than...
Where are the 4 and 5 TB drives?
07 August 2012
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 4 TB is turning one year soon, and since then there have been many interesting events in the harddisk market. Still in memory and felt in...
SSD prices declining, but still expensive
24 June 2012
A recent Guardian article has a small round-up of the latest SSD prices, claiming "SSD prices have halved in a year". It includes some price points over the last year...
Memory and Storage Prices Decreasing with Time
09 June 2012
John C. McCallum has collected a lot of data points for prices on both memory, magnetic disks, and flash, and made the beautiful graph below. It is interesting, since this...
Linux and disk fragmentation
16 May 2012
A wind of nostalgia blew past, and for some reason I remembered rainy nights in the early 90s, waiting for Norton Speed Disk to defragment a 30 MB FAT16 drive....
Storage Prices
05 May 2012
Writing for Softpedia, Constantin Murariu claimed last week that the "HDD crisis" has been greatly exaggerated by the big manufactures, Seagate and Western Digital. For a fact, they have posted...
SanDisk CompactFlash Speeds
04 May 2012
Looking for more memory cards for my DSLR, I divided deep into the CF specification, history, and marketing. It's a mess. Here I've focused on the SanDisk CF cards, as...
DRM on harddisk and flash sticks
29 February 2012
CNet is covering a press release from Western Digital which announced a new consortium called Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) to create standards for transferring restricted / locked contented between...
Three Months Into the Thai Floods
08 February 2012
TechSpot is running an article on the prices of harddisks from Newegg three months after the Thai Floods. As expected, prices remain high, with certain manufacturers and disk models hit...
Fluctuating Storage Prices
23 October 2011
Due to fluctuating exchange rates, and a flood in Thailand, prices on hard drives have changed a lot lately. Western Digital, which is tracked extensively on this list, has been...
Storage Prices
15 July 2011
Some minor updates since last time. All the Corsair disks are new, and there are also many new OCZ drives, as discussed in details a few days ago. However, the...
More SSD options
14 July 2011
HotHardware has a new round-up of six SSDs, including Corsair, OCZ, Crucial, and Patriot drives. Jumping right to the conclusion, three of the drives win "Editor's Choice": OCZ Vertex 3...
Storage Prices
09 April 2011
It's only about two months since the last update on storage prices, so not much has happened. The different SSD offerings are difficult to track, though. Anandtech laments how Kingston...
Choosing an SSD
09 April 2011
With most technology, I choose to be a late adopter. Letting other people do the first rounds of QA has saved we loads of money. Waiting for the prices of...
Storage Prices
29 January 2011
2011 seems to be the year storage prices stopped making sense. At least if only looking from a price / capacity point. You can now get an internal 1 TB...
3 TB disks are here
21 October 2010
Western Digital just announced their new additions to the Green Series: 2.5 and 3 TB disks. Here's the WD Caviar Green, 3 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache. The...
Storage History
10 October 2010
As a follow up to the storage prices I just posted, here are some interesting history. Ivan Smith has collected a long list of prices, going as far back as...
Storage Prices
10 October 2010
About two and half years ago, I collected the prices of various storage media, and calculated the cost per GB. Since then, there have been big movements, and as expected...
Storage prices in Zurich
12 February 2008
The informal storage media list is back, this time based on prices from Digitec.ch in Zurich. The prices are in Swiss Franc, but converted to Euros with a rate of...
Storage prices
17 January 2008
Media type Product Capacity Price Euros Euros / GB DVD-R Verbatim 16x DVD-R 100 @ 4,7GB 470 GB 37.00 0.08 Harddisk Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB SATA2 1000 GB 259.00...