Seagate Ships 8 TB Hard Drives
Dang ! Seagate today announced it is shipping the world's first 8 TB hard disk drive. An important step forward in storage, the 8 TB hard disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry for cloud content, object storage and back-up disaster recovery storage.
"As our world becomes more mobile, the number of devices we use to create and consume data is driving an explosive growth in unstructured data. This places increased pressure on cloud builders to look for innovative ways to build cost-effective, high capacity storage for both private and cloud-based data centers," said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. "Seagate is poised to address this challenge by offering the world's first 8 TB HDD, a ground-breaking new solution for meeting the increased capacities needed to support the demand for high capacity storage in a world bursting with digital creation, consumption and long-term storage."
"Public and private data centers are grappling with efficiently storing massive amounts of unstructured digital content," said John Rydning, IDC's research vice president for hard disk drives. "Seagate's new 8 TB HDD provides IT managers with a new option for improving storage density in the data center, thus helping them to tackle one of the largest and fastest growing data categories within enterprise storage economically."
The 8 TB hard disk drive increases system capacity using fewer components for increased system and staffing efficiencies while lowering power costs. With its low operating power consumption, the drive reliably conserves energy thereby reducing overall operating costs. Helping customers economically store data, it boasts the best Watts/GB for enterprise bulk data storage in the industry.
"Cleversafe is excited to once again partner with Seagate to deliver to our customers what is truly an innovative storage solution. Delivering absolute lowest cost/TB along with the performance and reliability required for massive scale applications, the new 8 TB hard disk drive is ideal for meeting the needs of our enterprise and service provider customers who demand optimized hardware and the cost structure needed for massive scale out," said Tom Shirley, senior vice president of research and development, Cleversafe.
Outfitted with enterprise-class reliability and support for archive workloads, it features multi-drive RV tolerance for consistent enterprise-class performance in high density environments. The drive also incorporates a proven SATA 6Gb/s interface for cost-effective, easy system integration in both private and public data centers.
Shipping drives to select customers now with wide scale availability next quarter.
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I have 5 x 2TB HDDs, I would love to just be able to buy a couple of these, I bet they're too expensive though.
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SSDs are the future and this is where all the money for R&D should be going not wasting it on "Improving" old tech that's going to inevitability be pushed aside one day for SSDs anyway
From my own experience I cant even argue that HDDs are more reliable!
I work for a company where we provide IT for companies that don't have their own internal IT staff and we also build our own PCs.
Since moving to SSDs a few years back in all our desktop PCs I can count the number of failures we've had on one hand over several hundred PCs. The same cannot be said for when he used HDDs!
HDDs need to go away
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I will buy three of these for my storage needs and 4 Samsung 1TB SSD's, for my gaming and productivity needs!
My guess, is that they will sell for $399 - which isn't too bad? Now I have to decide if I want to go with a I7 5360k or wait for Skylake-E, when intel releases an I7 Xtream 10core variant, as they always trickle down their server chips!
This will all go along great, when I update my Home Theater system to Dolby Atmos, a 70" 4k display and two GTX 880Ti's to drive them!
I'm about 70% complete with my masterpiece so far....
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Just ordered 4x WD 6TB Greens
Had an eye on the 5TB Seagate but AFAIK none reached the UK and all listings have since been pulled by the major retailers stating 'discontinued'
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Can even remember when a 250Mb hard drive was considered pretty big back in the i386 days.
How things have changed over the past decade or so.
Still have some DDR2 RAM lying around somewhere.