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WD Red price per terabyte in Europe in May 2016

Bogdan — Wed, 18 May 2016 19:29:32 +0000

Prices were collected on May 18th, 2016, from amazon.de

Price per terabyte of WD Red HDDs

Capacity, TB	Price, EUR	EUR/TB
6	252	42
5	208	41.6
4	158	39.5
3	116	38.(6)

Statistics of Google HDDs failures

Bogdan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:58 +0000

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (or here, if that link doesn’t work)

Worth reading for any IT guy, especially for people dealing with lots of HDDs.
Also might be interesting for those, who have Gmail with (now) over 6GiB storage…

Recommended software: Sequoia View

Bogdan — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:48:18 +0000

I think Sequoia View is a must-have utility program.
“Why?” – you may ask.

Because it lets you actually see you hard disk hogs. With this program you will know exactly which files/folders occupy too much hard disk space to keep them any longer.

The program is free, latest version is 1.3 and it was released in November 2002. However, WinXP is supported (don’t know about Vista).

See this page for more information and the download link.

Alternatively, contact me and I’ll try to mail you the setup program (which is circa 500KB).

Update: SequoiaView appears to ignore files larger than or equal to 4 GiB. Please comment to prove or disprove.

Update 2: here’s a KDirStat-based alternative, WinDirStat.