Posted on 08/26/2014 7:18:15 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Seagate has hit a new storage milestone with its recently unveiled 8TB hard drive disk, the first of its kind to start shipping. The company calls this an "important step forward", saying its new offering meets the increasing data-heavy demands of our modern cloud-centric world.
The new 8TB offering is a 3.5-inch drive, and the maker is hawking it at cloud providers and others revolving around bulk data storage. Said IDC's John Rydning, "Public and private data centers are grappling with efficiently storing massive amounts of unstructured digital content."
He points towards the 8TB drive as a solution for addressing this issue. Many benefits for using the high-capacity drive are given, including lowering the cost of powering an organization's storage drives. Overall operating costs go down as a result, says Seagate, with its drive offering "the best Watts/GB for enterprise" data storage.
The drive, among other things, uses the SATA 6Gb/s interface, which Seagate hails as bringing easy implementation for whomever uses the drive. Only "select" unspecified customers are seeing the 8TB drive ship for now, but Seagate says it'll be making it more widely available in Q4.
I picked up a Del GX420 Optiplex at a yard sale recently.
I had 2 Gb of memory to plunk into it, along with a 250 Gb SATA drive.
Total cost? 20 bucks.
Not bad for a 2.8 Gh Pentium 4.
But it ain’t got a floppy!
I seldom need more than 3 minutes
Oops... sb Dell GX520
That’s a lot of 5 1/2” floppies.
Only if you had that wonderful experience of programming in machine or assembly. Back in the day, that was all we had. Almost gave up on computers until basic came along and revised my sprite. LOL!
When I started, we coded in 0s and 1s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1s.
revised = revived
ROFLMAO!!! Joke from the old days ... love it.
But when they get cheap enough, they'd sure make for a nice RAID!
I remember plonking down $1200 for my first 5MB hard drive, and thinking I’d be in the catbird seat for quite a long time. The number of 8” floppies that thing would hold was incredible, plus it was SOOO fast.
WOW! What a layout. Back in the day I couldn’t begin to afford that. However, I can remember the old 8” disks and can also remember notching apposing sides of the old 5 1/4 disk so I could use both sides. When the 3 1/2 disks came out, you could drill a hole (don’t remember were) so you could use both sides.
Us poor folks hand to make due.
today, the move for home users is for these big storage drives to be in NAS boxes running mirrored for automatic back up (tho on-site)
combine that with a gigabit LAN and 256 SSD for local storage and you’ve got a nice, extendable setup
Is that you, Bill Gates?
Seagate hard drives suck. They are some of the worst in the market. I can only imagine that their new 8TB HD sucks (crashes) AT LEAST 8 times as much as their 1TB drives.
I wish. If it were, several mill would be going into the support of FR rather than to support gun control.
Heck, I learned assembler because machine language on the MC6809 blew the doors off of Tandy Disk Extended Color Basic.
I learned assembly because I was tired of creating 20K lines of code just to eject a floppy... which is about as far as my patients would take me. LOL!
It takes more than 1,000 days estimate to scan a 3T drive for bad blocks... So, that’s something that no longer gets done ....
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