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Toshiba has wrung another market slot-filling product out of its 5TB disk tech – a surveillance drive. The company has two existing 5TB disk drive products. There is the MC04ACAnnnE bulk storage drive spinning at 7,200rpm for servers and arrays with cloud-scale needs. It has a 6Gbit/s SATA interface and an 800,000 hours MTBF …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Internet and HDDs are made for porn

    Probably perfect for storing your internet porn as well.

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    1. WraithCadmus
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      Re: Internet and HDDs are made for porn

      This seems to be for predictable workloads, and I would have thought that art films would be a more 'on-demand' endeavour.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Internet and HDDs are made for porn and cat videos

      Probably perfect for storing your internet porn as well as all your lolcat videos.

      FTFY.

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  2. CAPS LOCK

    Anyone considering buying a Toshiba drive would do well to review their warranty...

    which for my new drive was effectively 'none'. Shop elsewhere or live to regret it.

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    1. joeW
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      Re: Anyone considering buying a Toshiba drive would do well to review their warranty...

      Had a 6-month old Tosh drive replaced under warranty earlier this year.

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      1. stizzleswick
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        Re: Anyone considering buying a Toshiba drive would do well to review their warranty...

        @joeW: the point being that with certain other manufacturers, you rarely need to rely on warranty.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Anyone considering buying a Toshiba drive would do well to review their warranty...

      Like Samsung then?

      4 1TB SSD's failed in the space ot 6 weeks. All less than a year old. Were they replaced?

      What do you think.

      Samsung has been on our 'Do not buy' list ever since.

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  3. forquare

    It'll outlive me!

    A MTBF of 800,000 hours!? That's 91 years!

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    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: It'll outlive me!

      Yup (according to Tosh).

      C.

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    2. Justicesays
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      Devil

      Re: It'll outlive me!

      This has been extensively tested via their time machine of course.

      And not by hooking up 1000 of them for 2 months and taking stat's from that (after throwing away the ones that failed in the 2-3 weeks.) I'm sure.

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    3. Servman
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      Re: It'll outlive me!

      It's always wise to invest in storage today for your grandchildren's retirement...

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  4. Ross K Silver badge
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    Toshiba drives are shit

    I don't think they've made a good drive ever.

    I'm guessing they're running slowly to ensure they're under-stressed.

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    1. Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face
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      Re: Toshiba drives are shit

      I picked a low speed drive for my home server to reduce power consumption and noise.

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    2. Down not across
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      Re: Toshiba drives are shit

      I don't think they've made a good drive ever.

      Dunno. I have bunch of old 20-40GB 2.5 and 3.5" drives that just refuse to die and they've been abused a lot.

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  5. Charles Manning

    NSA drives?

    When the headline said "surveillance drive" I immediately thought of a hall full of these over at NSA.

    It is a sobering (or depressing) thought that just one of these drives can keep 1kbyte of data for every adult on the planet.

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    1. MyffyW Silver badge
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      Re: NSA drives?

      I thought I was just being particularly paranoid today, but that was my first thought too.

      The perils of having Thomas Pynchon as bedside reading...

      For a gentleman answering to Chuck, the authorities raked up some muck, writing to disk, well yes it's a risk, but Myffy just says what the f***

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Last minute change in Toshiba marketing

    Not a load of Tosh: 5TB 'surveillance drive' from Toshiba hits shelves

    Ideal for storing all your pirate bay content Surveillance videos.

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