{"id":17842,"date":"2017-04-29T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17842"},"modified":"2019-07-13T23:13:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:13:05","slug":"8-tb-hard-drives-now-highly-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/29\/8-tb-hard-drives-now-highly-attractive\/","title":{"rendered":"8 TB Hard Drives Now Highly Attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/blog\/2017\/20170427_1002-high-capacity-HGST-hard-drives.html\">Lloyd Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/blog\/2017\/20170427_1002-high-capacity-HGST-hard-drives.html\">\r\n<p>Hard drives prices have been relatively stable, but HGST now has a Deskstar NAS series which makes the 8TGB models particularly attractive with <em>8TB now having the lowest cost per gigabyte versus its 6TB and 4TB siblings<\/em>&mdash;no more cost premium per gigabyte.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>The HGST 8 TB drive is only $289, and Newegg currently has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748\">8 TB Seagate<\/a> for $250. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/what-i-want-in-the-new-mac-pro\/#comment-2708104\">2 TB SSDs<\/a> are between $550 and $1,000. The largest hard drive Apple sells is a 3 TB Fusion Drive, and it charges $600 to upgrade an iMac to 1 TB of flash. You can&rsquo;t even get more than 512 GB of flash without the 27-inch display. Even with most expensive Mac Pro is limited to 1 TB.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Chambers: Hard drives prices have been relatively stable, but HGST now has a Deskstar NAS series which makes the 8TGB models particularly attractive with 8TB now having the lowest cost per gigabyte versus its 6TB and 4TB siblings&mdash;no more cost premium per gigabyte. The HGST 8 TB drive is only $289, and Newegg currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-07-03T20:27:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"59dff769-8457-4cd5-9e64-064edbb12223","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-07-14T03:13:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWd_3aYRXTNWeZAZO27EiIw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[699,1297,30,183,174],"class_list":["post-17842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bargain","tag-imac","tag-mac","tag-ssd","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17843,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions\/17843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}