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.
Better.
Ping.
And I remember when I thought my new 340mb HDD was all I would ever need. LOL!
Any word on how much it costs?
Not that I have been able to find.
SSD costs will eventually come down.
Just not in the near future.
I remember upgrading a 2 floppy IBM PC with a 10M hard drive, and then being shocked several months later when it ran out of space.
Anyone know how many copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica that is?
What is an encyclopedia?
Please define “near future” in terms of months or years. Thank you.
LOL! Been there, done that.
Or how many hours of pr0n it is?
Metal plates are cheap, chips are expensive.
Once you get up to a terabyte SSD at a competitive price, mechanical hard drives become a niche product. ...but mechanical drives will almost always be there for bulk storage.
For me, the amount of digital content I produce every year outstrips the capacity of solid state drives and upstream bandwidth is a limiting factor for cloud storage.
8 Terrabyte of storage is amazing.
Microsoft will bloat their software to fill it....
POS...
Several years ago I attended a computer club’s yard sale. It was surprisingly large with a lot of goods. I did find some old ram modules for 50 cents each. I actually needed them.
I noticed a brand new Realistic 200 baud modem. It was still in a sealed box and had an original price of $400. The guy in charge told a guy to just mark it 50 cents and if they thought that was too much, just give it to them.
I am not computer savvy but I bet some people would have had a good time there.
5 years
I take it you meant to say ‘porn’.
I have no idea, I’ve never seen any.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Ain’t that the truth?
A Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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