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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."
A cornerstone for growing capacities in multiple applications, the 8 TB hard drive delivers bulk data storage solutions for online content storage providing customers with the highest capacity density needed to address an ever increasing amount of unstructured data in an industry-standard 3.5-inch HDD. Providing up to 8 TB in a single drive slot, the drive delivers maximum rack density, within an existing footprint, for the most efficient data center floor space usage possible.
"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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#4900347 Posted on: 08/27/2014 02:17 AM
No, you are right m8. Time will prove you right.
Doubt there will be a dedicated ssd just for storage though.
I get what you are saying though. Why not just use old tech to make slow storage ssd's and all new tech goes into the super duper fast drives.
Nah, im totally with you. Even if the read / write speeds are half of that of normal ssd's, they will still be vastly surpirior to hdd's, due to not being mechanical... meaning no spinup time, no read / write latency etc.
It will all depend on price as to whether it will take off and atm 2-3TB SSD's will be so expensive that nobody will bother as they will just use a mechanical. It may change in the future but with current prices of large SSD's for storage its silly and a waste of cash. If the price can come down then yeah SSD's for storage is great.
Thing is it no longer becomes a Storage drive does it once you start booting all your data from it.
No, you are right m8. Time will prove you right.
Doubt there will be a dedicated ssd just for storage though.
I get what you are saying though. Why not just use old tech to make slow storage ssd's and all new tech goes into the super duper fast drives.
Nah, im totally with you. Even if the read / write speeds are half of that of normal ssd's, they will still be vastly surpirior to hdd's, due to not being mechanical... meaning no spinup time, no read / write latency etc.
It will all depend on price as to whether it will take off and atm 2-3TB SSD's will be so expensive that nobody will bother as they will just use a mechanical. It may change in the future but with current prices of large SSD's for storage its silly and a waste of cash. If the price can come down then yeah SSD's for storage is great.
Thing is it no longer becomes a Storage drive does it once you start booting all your data from it.
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#4900380 Posted on: 08/27/2014 03:30 AM
Honestly, I think SSD's are still too new.
HDD's have been around for decades, its tried and true technology.
SSD's as a consumer prodcut however are still in their very infancy, and we have absolutely no idea whatsoever of how the technology will hold up in the long-term.
Bear in mind that the concept behind SSD's has always been about speed and performance in computer systems, and never really about long-term data storage.
NAND and EEPROM have about as long of a history as the HDD. All have gone through many changes to the underlying technology. Even though HDDs seem 'tried and true' they still are subject to flaws - when Seagate was making their first 500G-2TB drives (first generation of perpendicular recording) they were infamous for how the platter coatings would flake off and destroy the drive. I believe this was when they started using glass platters with a magnetic coating.
Around the corner in the HDD tech department, heat-assisted magnetic recording is expected to provide the next jump in data density. But I still expect some growing pains as they shake out the bugs in their designs.
SSDs in normal end-of-life failures should revert to a read-only state iirc. If only we could be so lucky with a HDD.
Honestly, I think SSD's are still too new.
HDD's have been around for decades, its tried and true technology.
SSD's as a consumer prodcut however are still in their very infancy, and we have absolutely no idea whatsoever of how the technology will hold up in the long-term.
Bear in mind that the concept behind SSD's has always been about speed and performance in computer systems, and never really about long-term data storage.
NAND and EEPROM have about as long of a history as the HDD. All have gone through many changes to the underlying technology. Even though HDDs seem 'tried and true' they still are subject to flaws - when Seagate was making their first 500G-2TB drives (first generation of perpendicular recording) they were infamous for how the platter coatings would flake off and destroy the drive. I believe this was when they started using glass platters with a magnetic coating.
Around the corner in the HDD tech department, heat-assisted magnetic recording is expected to provide the next jump in data density. But I still expect some growing pains as they shake out the bugs in their designs.
SSDs in normal end-of-life failures should revert to a read-only state iirc. If only we could be so lucky with a HDD.
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#4900420 Posted on: 08/27/2014 05:51 AM
Id like to see affordable 1 - 2TB SSDs for Storage. Let's say 100 - 150 Euros.
- Reduced Speeds, but still atleast twice as fast as a traditional HDD.
- Increased Cell Durability.
But noooo, keep pushing and pushing the tech. We need to get rid of traditional HHDs, not make them larger.
We are long ways off from that one and $130/150 US dose sound nice for 1TB but it going be some time before see 2TB SSD size unless it on PCIe board or they start making them in 3.5 drive size in stead of 2.5 drive size.
Id like to see affordable 1 - 2TB SSDs for Storage. Let's say 100 - 150 Euros.
- Reduced Speeds, but still atleast twice as fast as a traditional HDD.
- Increased Cell Durability.
But noooo, keep pushing and pushing the tech. We need to get rid of traditional HHDs, not make them larger.
We are long ways off from that one and $130/150 US dose sound nice for 1TB but it going be some time before see 2TB SSD size unless it on PCIe board or they start making them in 3.5 drive size in stead of 2.5 drive size.
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#4900500 Posted on: 08/27/2014 08:25 AM
Wonder what size platters they have...
Wonder what size platters they have...
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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
HDD's need more maintenance then SSD's.
SSD's will just keep going (in general) until their cells die off.
Never had a HDD fail under my care. Though I do get the idea for IT companies. Maintenance is time consuming.