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Seagate’s new 8TB hard drive is the first of its kind
SlashGear.com ^ | 8/26/14 | Brittany Hillen

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.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: harddrive; seagate; tech
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To: deadrock

He also said that the internet was just a fad.


61 posted on 08/26/2014 9:07:38 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Must. Have. This.


62 posted on 08/26/2014 9:08:38 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: doc1019
Worked my butt off as a kid to afford it. Those were the days, when you could actually earn money repairing computers.

Though, umm, I think the hole drilling was to tell some drives that it was a double density 3.5 rather than a single density (170kb to 340kb, or something similar to that..) It was, IIRC, before the 740kb and 1.44mb discs came out. Couldn't do it to flip the disc over (first problem is that there wouldn't be anything to move the gate out of the way to reach the media that way..)

63 posted on 08/26/2014 9:37:55 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

You might (and probably are right) in the double density thingy. I just remember reading it somewhere and trying it ... after I found it to be true, everyone wanted me to take their disks home and repeat my success. Spent several weekends drilling disks. LOL!


64 posted on 08/26/2014 9:46:05 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: dfwgator

2000 dvd’s or over 300 blue-ray’s per drive. Also, you don’t just buy one, you buy multiples and then raid them. So a massive amount like 250 days of video would be easy to do at dvd quality, maybe even more depending on codex.


65 posted on 08/26/2014 10:07:05 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: catnipman

that reminds me, I have an RMA sitting on my desk that I need to send out.


66 posted on 08/26/2014 10:09:09 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Mais oui!
67 posted on 08/26/2014 10:36:51 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Dr. Sivana

I think he meant a “Realistic 2400” modem and you are correct on the math.

300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 - 54000 baud modems.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=sG79U—gN6H9igKx0IHYBQ&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5qWg6cgFnIU&cd=3&ved=0CCQQtwIwAg&usg=AFQjCNEN5oGtMtIxWMn1c6MhpnwHn0M3Gg

LOL!

first one I heard was given to me by a customer General Electric in 1984.

It was a 300 baud suitcase modem and they used it to connect to something they called a BBS.

The fellow who gave it me showed me how to use it.

I took it back to our office and we played with it for a week before putting on a history shelf.

I found out what all those dorks with Commodore s and TI’s where wasting so much time with.

Amazingly, porn is still the number one time waster.


68 posted on 08/26/2014 10:43:41 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Fungi

Seagate, like Toshiba is in the SSD market but, they already have a huge installed base of customers to support.

Toshiba recently bought an SSD supplier for the technology and their pipeline of customers.

Look for others to do the same.

Word has it there will be a pretty kewel product from Sandisk soon and then it’s no more 8” floppies....

/s (the


69 posted on 08/26/2014 10:47:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Fungi
Solid state will eventually rule, but when?

When they finally figure out how to keep the innards from croaking after too many read/write cycles.. ;-)

70 posted on 08/26/2014 11:33:39 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
From what I understand, SSD drives corrupt easily. Until that ‘glitch’ is fixed then we are stuck with electro-mechanical drives.

Take a look at the current Mac notebook line. They all have SSDs, except for the 13" MBP, which comes with either a 5400-rpm hard drive or a 512gb SSD.

If the SSD write-endurance glitch were still an issue, I highly doubt Apple would be converting their product line to SSDs.

Recently, while browsing in the local Apple Store, I timed a reboot of a MacBook Air with a 1.8ghz processor and an SSD vs a MacBook Pro with a 2.5ghz processor and a hard drive. The MacBook Air was about four times as fast from reboot to usable desktop.

71 posted on 08/27/2014 12:04:40 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: TomGuy

WD now offers their NAS (wifi) drive in 6T capacity for $349.00. I have a 4T and it is full of TV programs so I guess I will have to get another or move up to the 6T.

It is cheaper to get a cheap raid box and stuff a couple 4T drives in it than it is to get the 8T drive.

Big drives require big backup drives, I have a Drobo 5N with 5, 4T drives in it, one failed last week and it took about a week to repair itself, now have to replace the bad drive.

My first hard drive was a 5 meg that I bought used for $400.00, bear in mind that a 400 k floppy was about $400.00 at the time. My first 1 gig drive I paid about $750.00 as I recall, now a Terabyte drive is 1000 times more capacity and can be had for less than $60.00.


72 posted on 08/27/2014 12:20:27 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: dfwgator
Or how many hours of pr0n it is?

Not nearly enough!

73 posted on 08/27/2014 2:37:04 AM PDT by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I am using Windows 8.1 on an SSD. Love it. Best computer experience I have ever had, period, except for the Windows 8.1 part.

I probably won’t remember to catch back up with you if it corrupts.

But so far, I am thrilled.


74 posted on 08/27/2014 2:41:24 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: catnipman

YMMV.

I’ve never had a problem with a Seagate drive. Sorry that you have issues.


75 posted on 08/27/2014 5:06:28 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Bigger, better, faster...


76 posted on 08/27/2014 5:09:54 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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To: Larry Lucido

You need a bigger scanner


77 posted on 08/27/2014 5:28:31 AM PDT by Brother Cracker ( Mossberg 500 helps me deal with being old and cranky)
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To: Vendome
300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 - 54000 baud modems.

I believe that once you get above 9600 on phone lines, the terminology switches from baud to bps, due to tricks employed to get the higher throughput.

Was your suitcase modem an acoustic modem, which was capable of being used with pay phones and other hard wired phones with traditional handsets? Those were mostly gone by 1984.
78 posted on 08/27/2014 5:30:24 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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79 posted on 08/27/2014 6:31:49 AM PDT by W. (Congress: Never bet against their ability to grow stupidity exponentially.)
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To: Fungi
At what point will the hard drive finally succumb to the SSD? Hard to measure. For now, I like he hard drive, despite a measly 320 gig I have now. Solid state will eventually rule, but when?

I don't believe SSD is ever going to kill HDD, but there are scenarios today where it is more cost effective to use SSD.

Not matter how big you make that SATA HDD, it's only going to be able to do about 150 reads/writes per second. Ever. We're topped out. So if you need 150,000 read/writes per second, you need 1,000 of those drives, regardless of how much actual data you have to store. Factor in the cost of all those drives, the power and cooling to maintain them, and SSD is probably MUCH cheaper because you don't need to buy anywhere near 8,000 TB of them. [Yes, I know, you wouldn't use SATA here, but the concept is the same].

Also, the inherent latency in HDD gives an SSD based system time to do dedupe/compression. If SSD costs 8x HDD, but an application like VDI can dedupe at 10x, it's actually cheaper per GB to go with SSD.

80 posted on 08/27/2014 6:40:52 AM PDT by Darth Reardon (Is it any wonder I'm not the president?)
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