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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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#4900641 Posted on: 08/27/2014 12:18 PM
I assume they have 6 platters and 1.33 TB/platter. I don't think there are 1.5 TB platters available and I don't think that is a way to get more than 6 platters on 3.5 format. Maybe we'll see HDDs on 5.25 format like DVD-RW and sizes up to 16 TB.
I assume they have 6 platters and 1.33 TB/platter. I don't think there are 1.5 TB platters available and I don't think that is a way to get more than 6 platters on 3.5 format. Maybe we'll see HDDs on 5.25 format like DVD-RW and sizes up to 16 TB.
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#4900647 Posted on: 08/27/2014 12:33 PM
"8TB"... so about 7.3 actual TB if they go by the usual trend of being a bit over.
Someone's going to be disappointed about having over 700GB less than expected. There really needs to be laws against advertising storage as SI units rather than binary.
"8TB"... so about 7.3 actual TB if they go by the usual trend of being a bit over.
Someone's going to be disappointed about having over 700GB less than expected. There really needs to be laws against advertising storage as SI units rather than binary.
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#4900765 Posted on: 08/27/2014 04:02 PM
"8TB"... so about 7.3 actual TB if they go by the usual trend of being a bit over.
Someone's going to be disappointed about having over 700GB less than expected. There really needs to be laws against advertising storage as SI units rather than binary.
I agree, on the other hand, it is an industry standard to measure in terabits instead of terabytes for hard drives; you're technically not being cheated out if all drives from all brands are do this. But still, 700GB alone is more than enough storage for everything I use and do.
On an unrealted note, are these HDDs filled with helium? I know that's a new thing for super high-capacity drives, and it makes me wonder how much that's a good idea. Many companies with high-risk data (such as insurance companies) destroy hard drives on-site, and these companies are going to be the most interested in drives with capacities this high. Helium is a finite resource and we're running low. How are these companies going to salvage the helium? I'm not sure exactly why helium is used but I personally think it'd have been better to look into something like neon.
"8TB"... so about 7.3 actual TB if they go by the usual trend of being a bit over.
Someone's going to be disappointed about having over 700GB less than expected. There really needs to be laws against advertising storage as SI units rather than binary.
I agree, on the other hand, it is an industry standard to measure in terabits instead of terabytes for hard drives; you're technically not being cheated out if all drives from all brands are do this. But still, 700GB alone is more than enough storage for everything I use and do.
On an unrealted note, are these HDDs filled with helium? I know that's a new thing for super high-capacity drives, and it makes me wonder how much that's a good idea. Many companies with high-risk data (such as insurance companies) destroy hard drives on-site, and these companies are going to be the most interested in drives with capacities this high. Helium is a finite resource and we're running low. How are these companies going to salvage the helium? I'm not sure exactly why helium is used but I personally think it'd have been better to look into something like neon.
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#4900794 Posted on: 08/27/2014 04:55 PM
"8TB"... so about 7.3 actual TB if they go by the usual trend of being a bit over.
Someone's going to be disappointed about having over 700GB less than expected. There really needs to be laws against advertising storage as SI units rather than binary.
I must admit, back in the day it didn't matter that much but now as HDD's are getting bigger and bigger that gap is getting bigger as well.
We might understand why but some customer with no knowledge that buys a PC in a few years expecting a 8TB storage might just end up getting mad.
On an unrealted note, are these HDDs filled with helium? I know that's a new thing for super high-capacity drives, and it makes me wonder how much that's a good idea. Many companies with high-risk data (such as insurance companies) destroy hard drives on-site, and these companies are going to be the most interested in drives with capacities this high. Helium is a finite resource and we're running low. How are these companies going to salvage the helium? I'm not sure exactly why helium is used but I personally think it'd have been better to look into something like neon.
I don't think so. A company did it a while back as a "shortcut" to get to these sizes earlier on, but I think Seagate and WD are doing it without Helium (correct me if I'm wrong).
"8TB"... so about 7.3 actual TB if they go by the usual trend of being a bit over.
Someone's going to be disappointed about having over 700GB less than expected. There really needs to be laws against advertising storage as SI units rather than binary.
I must admit, back in the day it didn't matter that much but now as HDD's are getting bigger and bigger that gap is getting bigger as well.
We might understand why but some customer with no knowledge that buys a PC in a few years expecting a 8TB storage might just end up getting mad.
On an unrealted note, are these HDDs filled with helium? I know that's a new thing for super high-capacity drives, and it makes me wonder how much that's a good idea. Many companies with high-risk data (such as insurance companies) destroy hard drives on-site, and these companies are going to be the most interested in drives with capacities this high. Helium is a finite resource and we're running low. How are these companies going to salvage the helium? I'm not sure exactly why helium is used but I personally think it'd have been better to look into something like neon.
I don't think so. A company did it a while back as a "shortcut" to get to these sizes earlier on, but I think Seagate and WD are doing it without Helium (correct me if I'm wrong).
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There is still a lot of R&D into non-SSD type drives, like new recording technology for HDD's (HAMR etc), optical storage and other things. To replace people's storage drives with SSD's, along with the storage requirements of directly non-personal use (online cloud storage, email server, backups, all business storage requirements, research storage requirments etc) would require a very significant increase in production. A lot of electronic stuff requires the use of rare earth elements, not sure what is used in SSD's, but it's possible that to replace all HDD's with SSD's using current capacities, that there simply many not be enough raw materials!
SSD's are also faced with a similar limitation that processors are currently approaching. To get ever increasing densities to the point where you can have multi-terabyte SSD's, you would need to progress from 19 nm tech to 14 nm (or whatever comes next), then 10, 5... so, you would get to the point where other technologies need to be utilised.