REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID

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Related: hard drive, HGST, Other World Computing, OWC Thunderbay, RAID, RAID-4, RAID-5, SoftRAID

Get HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive or OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID-5 edition at OWC.

32TB RAID-4 from 5 X 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8

Now up is scintillating coverage of the HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive:

RAID performance of all flavors with SoftRAID is impressively scalable in the superlative OWC Thunderbay 4, which is wonderful since Disk Utility is no longer a realistic option*. SoftRAID is included in the purchase of the OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID-5 edition.

* With the lobotomy that Apple performed on Disk Utility in OS El Capitan, shamefully and unprofessionally leaving OS X RAID users hung out to dry, SoftRAID is the only realistic choice for RAID on OS X today since Disk Utility won’t even show RAID status any more.

Scalability of 3/4/5 HGST 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 in RAID 4 and RAID 5 configuration

Three huge volumes, all RAID-4 fault tolerant using SoftRAID, from five HGST Ultrastar He8 8TB hard drives

SoftRAID topology for three RAID-4 volumes, made from five HGST Ultrastar He8 8TB hard drives