Seagate is Sampling 8TB HDDs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/21/2014 12:30 PM | source: | 25 comment(s)

Got storage needs ? Well good news as Seagate is sampling partners their first colossal in storage volume 8TB HDDs. During Seagate’s earnings call last week, CEO Steve Luczo let investors and analysts know that his company was one step closer to getting 8TB hard drives on the market. Luczo said during the call that Seagate shipping 8 terabyte hard drive samples to customers for initial testing, one of the key steps in getting the drives to market.

“We have also delivered 8 terabyte customer development units to major customers and cloud service providers and the initial customer feedback has been very positive,” Luczo said during the call. “While it’s still early in the development of our Kinetic object-based storage platform, we are in deep technical discussions with a very broad-base of enterprise customers. We believe our focus on developing key values for object-based storage will make the Kinetic platform a differentiated offering in the cloud storage marketplace.”

Luczo didn’t say what technology or process Seagate was using for the 8TB drives, nor did he specify a release date or pricing for the general public.

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Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#4878164 Posted on: 07/21/2014 12:37 PM

Venom. deleted your post here due to a sorting issue. Two servers here out of sync time wise, this is fixed

Feel free to report of course, sorry.

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#4878175 Posted on: 07/21/2014 12:55 PM

^_^

Well, I was just wondering about RAID rebuild times with this one. Keeping Seagate reliability in mind, I wonder if RAID Z3 level will be a new standard now.

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#4878217 Posted on: 07/21/2014 02:40 PM

i'll take 2 please

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#4878234 Posted on: 07/21/2014 03:04 PM

Seagate makes some of the most reliable HDD's in the industry! Highly recommended IMO.

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#4878237 Posted on: 07/21/2014 03:06 PM

What on earth is RAID Z3?

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