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[Matt]

I bit the bullet and ordered an 8TB internal hard drive:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XS423SC

I'm in the process of loading it up now.  I suppose it's good that it means I'll have a backup copy of everything I can put in my safe from the old hard drive.

But the real reason I needed it is because some yahoo bought the Star Wars anthology on blu-ray and ripping all of them (with Media Center!) resulted in a lot of space!

Hopefully the 8TB mark will keep me happy for a while.  It's just amazing how the capacities just keep doubling and doubling.  I wonder what the limit will be?

[JimH]

But the real reason I needed it is because some yahoo bought the Star Wars anthology on blu-ray and ripping all of them (with Media Center!) resulted in a lot of space!

I blame Ben.

[KingSparta]

that's a good price

[jmone]

Hopefully the 8TB mark will keep me happy for a while.

   No way.  Once you start ripping BD the space goes very quickly!  I've now got a couple of the 8TB in my main pool and as I run out of space I remove the smallest drive and replace with the biggest one available.  As you can see in the Pic I've got a 40TB pool with "only" 3.5TB left on my "M:" drive

[Listener]

I bit the bullet and ordered an 8TB internal hard drive:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XS423SC

I'm in the process of loading it up now.  I suppose it's good that it means I'll have a backup copy of everything I can put in my safe from the old hard drive.

But the real reason I needed it is because some yahoo bought the Star Wars anthology on blu-ray and ripping all of them (with Media Center!) resulted in a lot of space!

Hopefully the 8TB mark will keep me happy for a while.  It's just amazing how the capacities just keep doubling and doubling.  I wonder what the limit will be?

Let us know how the Seagate works out - reliability and noise are of interest to me.

[Matt]

I'm still filling it up.  It's going to take over 24 hours.  And this is with SATA connections.

Crazy.

[Listener]

I'm still filling it up.  It's going to take over 24 hours.  And this is with SATA connections.

It has taken me a lot longer to fill a 3TB drive.   

I note that an 8TB USB drive is available for the same price from Amazon.

[Matt]

I finally finished filling it up.

I was relieved because even my junction points on the old drive moved over just fine (I have a pile of directories on A:\ which map into my old / new drive).

I can't really comment on the noise because I have such an insulated case.  It's pretty quiet, but obviously not SSD quite!

[jmone]

It's worth keeping in mind these use SMR so they are best for storing content that does not change (eg good for media)

[KingSparta]

I can't really comment on the noise

Seagate is known for noisy drives.

my third and forth hard drive, back in the early 80's was a Seagate (65 meg, 5 1\4 inch) drive.

[JimH]

Seagate is known for noisy drives.

my third and forth hard drive, back in the early 80's was a Seagate (65 meg, 5 1\4 inch) drive.

I don't think noisy drives are much of a problem any more.  They're all pretty quiet.

[blgentry]

Some of you may find this report interesting.  BackBlaze is a cloud backup provider.  They publish the results of their hard drive failures a couple of times per year.  This report contains statistics for over 40,000 drives that are in current use in their data center.  Pretty cool real world stuff here.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/

Brian.

[Hendrik]

Should note that while their stuff is "real world", its not anywhere close to "home usage". Drives react differently to being in a crowded metal cage with 20 other drives running 24/7 (vibrations, etc), than running at home for a bit.