Seagate going for 14TB and 16TB HDDs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/27/2017 09:52 AM | source: | 31 comment(s)

Seagate is going to be pushing the envelope and will develop up-to 16 Terabyte HDDS. They want to do so within the next year and a half. They also aim to release a bit higher, a 20TB HDD is to be launched by 2020.

The news reached the media through a conference call with stock-holders. Seagate CEO Stephen Luczo said that 12TB HDDs based on helium technology are currently being tested, but that even more capacious solutions are not that far off. Currently the company already has 12 TB HDDs ready. WD also has similar plans with 12 and 14TB models. Obviously such high capacity HDDs are intended for the Enterprise market, data-centers and NAS (network-attached storage), where large capacity HDDs are proving popular among consumers. Seagate has also announced it will release 10TB HDD at a price of 400 USD.

SSDs are ruling the bigger chunk of the storage market, but larger than 1TB is still the HDD domain.

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mbk1969
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#5385623 Posted on: 01/27/2017 10:15 AM

Seagate is going to be pushing the envelope and will develop up-to 16 Terabye HDDS. They want to do so within the next year and a half. They also aim to release a bit higher, a 20TB HDD to be launched by 2020.

Spell check -)

alanm
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#5385630 Posted on: 01/27/2017 10:42 AM

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

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#5385632 Posted on: 01/27/2017 10:48 AM

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

Use RAID 10 and keep your fingers crossed that once you will have to rebuild it won't fail..

mbk1969
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#5385633 Posted on: 01/27/2017 10:49 AM

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

There are no HDD manufacturers whose disks avoided troubles. With that sizes these HDDs aimed for professional/enterprise niches, imo. And usually these niches receive big warranty periods and also are equipped with backup solutions.

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#5385636 Posted on: 01/27/2017 10:54 AM

Use RAID 10 and keep your fingers crossed that once you will have to rebuild it won't fail..

tbh RAID isn't a replacement for backups but i get what you mean

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