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Seagate four-platter 4TB desktop series HDD
Seagate send out a press release into cyberspace telling it is to launch a new 4TB Desktop HDD with 1TB per platter. The company's previous 4TB offerings used five platters with 800GB of storage capacity per platter. Seagate also proudly announces that it has now shipped 2 billion HDDs globally, four year after reaching the 1 billion mark.
The industry's only 4TB/4 disk desktop solution, the new Seagate drive supports the highest levels of performance while reducing costs. Nearly 800,000 times larger than the first desktop drive Seagate introduced in 1979, the new unit supports up to 800,000 photos, 300 plus hours of HD video or over 1,000,000 songs.
"By 2015 households which today routinely consume 1TB of data a month are expected to generate 20 times the amount of data than they currently save," said Richard Doherty, research director of the Envisioneering Group, a technology research and consulting company.
"Consumer's continued appetites for securely saving and organizing high-definition multimedia requires higher performance and the most trusted and dependable drives. Seagate's new 4TB Desktop HDD provides the ideal solution for consumer's soaring need for storage in the home - now, and in the future," he added.
The drive delivers the highest average data rate on the market today achieving 160 MB/second while saving 35% in power consumption over the competition. Seagate's own OptiCache technology has been incorporated boosting overall performance by as much as 45%.
The 4TB Desktop is equipped with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface for blazing-fast performance in a maximum-capacity drive. The unit's 1TB/platter technology reduces complexity inside the drive itself greatly improving storage reliability and reducing failure rate.
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#4522146 Posted on: 02/08/2013 06:42 PM
Agreed....
A single 4TB drive! that is a lot of data to loose if something does fail. I myself like 1tb for movies, 1tb for photo's, 1tb for music etc all external portable drives. easy to take and share with friends
when we I eventually get some that is.
I'll buy one as soon as they stop artificially inflating prices by 600%.
Agreed....
A single 4TB drive! that is a lot of data to loose if something does fail. I myself like 1tb for movies, 1tb for photo's, 1tb for music etc all external portable drives. easy to take and share with friends
when we I eventually get some that is.
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#4522233 Posted on: 02/08/2013 08:36 PM
Price?
Price?
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#4522413 Posted on: 02/09/2013 12:15 AM
4TB drive? How about big a5s single point of failure?
4TB drive? How about big a5s single point of failure?
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#4522416 Posted on: 02/09/2013 12:21 AM
How about you back it up with an identical 4TB drive.
Idiot
4TB drive? How about big a5s single point of failure?
How about you back it up with an identical 4TB drive.
Idiot
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#4522418 Posted on: 02/09/2013 12:24 AM
How about you back it up with an identical 4TB drive.
Idiot
External drives ... retard.
How about you back it up with an identical 4TB drive.
Idiot
External drives ... retard.
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#4522422 Posted on: 02/09/2013 12:28 AM
ffs
go on then, why?
External drives ... retard.
ffs
go on then, why?
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#4522428 Posted on: 02/09/2013 12:43 AM
Price drops low enough and I'll buy 10 of them to replace the 2TB drives I currently have in my array.
Price drops low enough and I'll buy 10 of them to replace the 2TB drives I currently have in my array.
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#4522545 Posted on: 02/09/2013 04:47 AM
lol i just checked how many hdds i own, 8 exactly, 2x are 4TB WD Black drives inside my PC (non-raid) that i use everyday.
6x are 2TB WD Green filled with all my videos/music/games/pr0n/roms etc (stuff i bought and or collected over the centuries) and the drives are stored somewhere safe, sure it's a lot of money but well worth it, they are nicely categorized and everything.
i used to do the same many years ago in the 90s but on AMPEX Magnetic Tapes 20GB, always hated taking chances with my data, these were very reliable and money was no object so it was well worth it.
unfortunately i stopped buying Seagate a few years ago, i purchased 4 seagate drives and all died within 1-2 month , clicking and bad sectors, tried low-level-format but no dice, returned and got the WD Green and all has been well since, maybe i was unlucky dunno.
i still got 2x 40GB seagate drives (purchased around 2002), dropped them a few times and tortured them extensively over the years, they're still working, no errors, no clicks, no nothing, i was almost a Fanboy of Seagate back then, monster reliability.
good times.
lol i just checked how many hdds i own, 8 exactly, 2x are 4TB WD Black drives inside my PC (non-raid) that i use everyday.
6x are 2TB WD Green filled with all my videos/music/games/pr0n/roms etc (stuff i bought and or collected over the centuries) and the drives are stored somewhere safe, sure it's a lot of money but well worth it, they are nicely categorized and everything.
i used to do the same many years ago in the 90s but on AMPEX Magnetic Tapes 20GB, always hated taking chances with my data, these were very reliable and money was no object so it was well worth it.
unfortunately i stopped buying Seagate a few years ago, i purchased 4 seagate drives and all died within 1-2 month , clicking and bad sectors, tried low-level-format but no dice, returned and got the WD Green and all has been well since, maybe i was unlucky dunno.
i still got 2x 40GB seagate drives (purchased around 2002), dropped them a few times and tortured them extensively over the years, they're still working, no errors, no clicks, no nothing, i was almost a Fanboy of Seagate back then, monster reliability.
good times.
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#4539883 Posted on: 02/28/2013 12:39 AM
Where are these? Can't find them anywhere
Where are these? Can't find them anywhere
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#4539938 Posted on: 02/28/2013 01:43 AM
That's because they haven't been released yet.
Where are these? Can't find them anywhere
That's because they haven't been released yet.
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#4539944 Posted on: 02/28/2013 01:57 AM
No **** sherlock
That's because they haven't been released yet.
No **** sherlock
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#4539966 Posted on: 02/28/2013 02:33 AM
its obvious you did not know they are not released.
Where are these? Can't find them anywhere
its obvious you did not know they are not released.
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#4540241 Posted on: 02/28/2013 02:18 PM
I once owned an external esata 4gb drive.
it was actually 2x 2tb drives combined in raid.
http://www.amazon.com/WD-My-Book-Studio-II/dp/B002BH3ZCU/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1362053814&sr=1-6&keywords=4tb+external+hard+drive
and goes up to 6tb.......
just too bad my new years resolution was not to spend money on hardware.
I once owned an external esata 4gb drive.
it was actually 2x 2tb drives combined in raid.
http://www.amazon.com/WD-My-Book-Studio-II/dp/B002BH3ZCU/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1362053814&sr=1-6&keywords=4tb+external+hard+drive
and goes up to 6tb.......
just too bad my new years resolution was not to spend money on hardware.
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#4540295 Posted on: 02/28/2013 03:27 PM
It's rather obvious that if you want to use large drives for storage, you need some kind of redundancy. Anything else would be silly.
It's rather obvious that if you want to use large drives for storage, you need some kind of redundancy. Anything else would be silly.
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I'll buy one as soon as they stop artificially inflating prices by 600%.