Seagate Now Offers 8 TB Hard Drives
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tsunami231
Increase in capacity is geting more frequent and faster, THis great to bad HDD are still slow in comparison to even the slowest SSD, then again SSD still cant touch those capacity, with out it costing more a gpu and some computers.
Koniakki
I have ordered the Seagate 8TB ST8000AS0002(250euro) which I guess it the "normal" drive.
alanm
Not sure I would trust seagate with 8tb of data on single drive. Big fan of their 1tb units but it ends there.
mjorgenson
I love these big drives....
rl66
this is not to be used as a main volume.
also SSD are still lot less reliable in 24/7 use, and still have a lower lifetime.
one day it will surpass the HDD even for that use... but not now.
it's for company, business etc... it will never be alone in 99% of the case
Seagate have made great improvement since the "not too safe" HDD 🙂
holystarlight
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
mjorgenson
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.
tsunami231
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
Corrupt^
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.
Koniakki
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.
geogan
Regarding reliability, I bought two 4Gb Seagate drives from scan.co.uk there about two years ago (at the time when 4Gb was biggest drive) and BOTH drives arrived DOA.
Returned both and never bought a Seagate again. Now only use WD drives (mostly their Green line)
k3vst3r
Just sounds like they was mistreated in transit, had numerous drives over the years from all different companies none have failed or arrived DOA. Doesn't what brand you buy, they all use same or similar parts from same production companies, seagate nor WD make their own motors, outsourced to another company.
rl66
WD is one of the best you can have...
but i agree that few ago seagate... but well it seem to be behing them now, and this is a good thing.
Solfaur
I'm planing on getting one of the new WD Black 6TB HDDs when they come out here. I don't really care anymore if one of my drives fail, since I learned my lesson and have a 2TB "off site" backup HDD where I put all my important data and also ~1TB of OneDrive cloud for the bit less important stuff.
So yeah, I'm all up for bigger drives, videos are getting bigger and bigger with the higher resolutions, it will likely be the same with games slowly but surely.
EJocys
With Seagate's reliability their slogan of marketing campaign must be: You can loose even more data now!
P.S.: Lost two Seagate drives this year. One was Seagate Barracuda 7200.11. My condolences to Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 owners who are playing Russian Roulette with 2 bullets in the chamber (2 out 6 users are loosing their data in in the first year). By now, probably, exabytes must be used to count amount of data lost by Seagate customers:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
One important lesson can be learned from this - when buying new drive, wait till market will test it for a year and release annual failure rates.
Neo Cyrus
I wanted to buy one of these... but there are so many bad reviews... but those reviews are old somehow. Any news if Seagate has improved the quality of these? Or if they have standard screw holes now? Last I checked these had only 2 holes each side.
MasterBash
Can we add some kind of filter on the forums so the backblaze site appears with ***? That **** is so flawed and people are still posting that trash.
0blivious
I dunno, I was impressed with the speed by some recent, (March 2015) cheap ($50) Seagate 1TB drives I bought.
Depending on chipset, they read/write @190-210mb/sec.
The 2TB drive I bought in early 2014 does 130mb/sec.
Some of the other drives I still have in use in old PCs get 100, 70 and down to 50mb/sec (7 yr old 320GB)
I'm not sure how the enormous drives run, but it seems like they are making speed increases with the consumer stuff.
Corrupt^
My 4TB does 150 on large files at 5400 rpm sometimes. Seems that speed is also increasing. SSD's in the end their real world performance gain might actually be explained by how fast they can read smaller data segments as opposed to their insane top speed.
EJocys
Please tell us how Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Rates are flawed. What I saw is damage control articles and BS excuses about why Seagate is not bad.
