Seagate Now Offers 8 TB Hard Drives
Seagate unveiled its new portfolio of 8TB high capacity drives - the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD, Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD and Seagate Kinetic HDD.
"Customers today need storage solutions to support a diverse, and sometimes very specialized, set of applications and workload requirements," said Scott Horn, vice president of marketing at Seagate. "In designing our products, we look closely at the type of data being stored, performance needs, power requirements, environmental operating conditions, network topologies, uptime demand and more, to ensure our customers receive the right storage technology for the job. This thoughtful approach has enabled us to deliver the most compelling 8TB portfolio available in the industry."
Within the cloud and traditional enterprise markets, businesses need high capacity and extremely reliable data storage solutions. Seagate's 8TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD drive addresses these needs by incorporating proven conventional magnetic recording hard drive technology, backed by nine generations of data center innovation. Enterprise customers also want world class performance from their storage solutions and the 8TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD delivers for them with a 100 percent increase in random read/write performance compared to previous generations, driving a vast improvement in IT performance across the enterprise.
"Supermicro's wide array of SuperServer and SuperStorage solutions deliver unrivaled performance, efficiency, density and reliability for enterprise, data center, cloud and HPC environments," said Don Clegg, vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. "With Seagate's new portfolio of 8TB 3.5" Enterprise and Kinetic HDD we can cost-effectively address expanding web scale storage requirements with the most advanced Green Computing platforms on the market."
Enterprise NAS HDD- Enterprise Capacity Meets SMBs
Small- and medium-sized businesses require high reliability too, but they also need storage solutions that can scale to support enterprise class performance as business mandates change and the company grows. Seagate's 8TB Enterprise NAS HDD takes conventional hard drive recording technology to the next level by providing one third more storage density for any tower or rack mount solution compared to the previous 6TB generation drive. This density advantage translates to fewer drives without sacrificing capacity, reducing power consumption and saving valuable space in servers and data centers to help improve IT cost structures and service value to the organization.
Kinetic HDD- High-Capacity, Reduced Cloud Economics
For organizations making the transition to the cloud with an eye to leveraging open source innovation, the 8TB Kinetic HDD focuses on total cost of ownership (TCO) by emphasizing scaled-out storage and rapid deployment in data centers. In cases where archiving data is a priority, emerging technologies such as Shingled Magnetic Recording can be of strategic and business value. Combined with the Kinetic Open Storage platform, this storage solution can change the TCO equation.
"I am impressed by the disk capacity increase achieved by Seagate," said Dirk Duellmann, deputy leader of the data and storage services group in the IT department at CERN. "As part of our collaboration through CERN openlab, we are aiming to demonstrate with Seagate the expected TCO and scalability benefits of Kinetic drives. These tests are being performed within the 100PB-scale storage setups that CERN deploys for the Large Hadron Collider."
The platform reduces TCO by redefining and greatly simplifying storage architectures for today's use-case scenarios. By combining an open source object storage protocol with Ethernet connectivity, Kinetic HDD eliminates multiple layers of legacy hardware and software infrastructure with a simple Key/Value interface. This in turn eliminates or dramatically reduces the need for traditional storage servers reducing capital equipment costs, power consumption and human expenses associated with managing storage for a total savings of up to 70 percent.
All drives are currently sampling to select customers with wide scale availability planned for late this year.
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It's weird, I read reports where Seagate fails more then other drives, but I have never had an issue with one. In fact, this build I have I am using a Seagate.
But I do religiously back up my data.
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in 15+ years of using nothing but seagate HDD I had 1 out right fail. reset if i hook up all the seagate hdd i have they will also all still work minus the whole degrade over time which is normal.
people around just like to bash on seagate since the whole firmware debacle.
we also dont need this topic turn in to another bash seagate topic iether
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Nice, keep going. Once we get past 10TB, it's time for me to finally get that NAS I always wanted and RAID1.
Though atm with current HDD sizes, the costs still outweigh the benefits for me, which will change as they get larger

Will most likely end up with media stored on a NAS then for the entire home and toss mechanical HDD's out of my PC(s) all together, just SSD's for the actual PC's.
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I also have 2 other(a 3TB and 4TB) Seagate drives(no special reason for purchase. They were just cheaper than others) that are running fine so far.
But for me for reliability I prefer Hitachi drives which I have 2 of them(7k2000 and 5k3000) and also going strong. So far no problem with any drive.
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cant say id be happy with 8tb data on a Seagate drive, always had bad experience with them. cant wait until WD bring out 8TB drives, I need some new ones for my NAS