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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.
Wow, thank you!
I’m astounded that you - or anyone, for that matter - know that.
Sounds like you could store the entire Library of Congess on there and have enough spece left over for your email correspondence.
I’ve had mixed performance but mostly good out of Seagate stuff. Western Digitals have done very well overall throughout the years. Maxtor is a brand I avoid.
They would be foolish not to.
My first computer that I owned I bought used from a guy who only had it a few weeks. It was a Gateway 386 20Mhz with an amazing 16 MB of memory and featuring a 20 MB HDD. In the old days, DOS used to run a memory test on start up and the first time I turned on that baby, it literally buzzed through the memory test. I still remember how awesome it was!
It probably was 300 as my memory is not that good anymore. It did seem like it said 200 but like I said.
I am seeing them hover around 50 cents a gig.. that’s not bad. I use a 120 or 256 gig SSD as my OS/program drive and large platter drives for storage. My old i5 really flies this way.
my last 120 gig cost me 50 bucks from new egg on sale with a coupon.
Considering that my first computer was a Commodore 64 with a cheap cassette tape drive for saving my work, my brand new Packard Bell 286 with a 340mb hard drive (don’t remember how much ram) was the end all of computing ... never to be surpassed.
“Solid state will eventually rule, but when?”
From what I understand, SSD drives corrupt easily. Until that ‘glitch’ is fixed then we are stuck with electro-mechanical drives.
You are correct, but it took me forever to scan them!
I remember going from a 10 Mb HD to a 20 Mb HD and thinking how great it was to have all that storage.
Just 2 years later, 100-200 Mbs were common and necessary.
You could put the entire IRS's email communications on it and then recycle it for backfilling the hole for an underground nuclear test.
Yep, I remember paying $750 for a 20 megabyte hard drive. My gal was mad because she said I would never fill it. She was right... Ahh, those were the days. Having to learn fortran because the program wouldn't work....
Geez. Am I officially an old fart now?
About 2 years ago, I bought a 4Tb NAS (wifi) Western Digital for about $180 (IIRC).
Amazing drive.
My desktop recognizes it.
My laptop recognizes it.
My WD HD TV box connected to the widescreen TV recognizes it.
I have about 4,000 TV program files and maybe 100 movies and still have about 1.25Tb free space.
My wife could fill it, She’s already max’d out a 3TB drive with thousands of religious sermon videos.
BTW- since 2000, The Library of Congress has archived websites related to a variety of themes and events
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