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.
When are they going to figure out how to stop computers from crashing so that the hard drive becomes worthless to the average person. It just means we lose more data.
The suitcase modem was indeed a coupler.
Wish I still had it, just for laughs...
Yep. I bought a 4 drive synology NAS a couple years ago. Recently added two 4G drives, mirrored, to supplement the mirrored 2G drives already in it. It is a nice setup.
Well, I always wait at least a year before trying a new OS so that the mfr. can get the ‘bugs’ out of the OS. I milked XP as long as I possibly could. I do the same thing with new hardware so that I shall wait awhile longer before trying SSD. ;-)
Which brand of SSD would you recommend?
Windows 8 isn’t the bugs. It is actually quite smooth. It is the presentation. Just don’t like this “tablet” presentation for a desktop operating system. Too big, I guess.
I only have the one SSD, think it is Samsung. It is fast.
Right after you install/reinstall Windows, you have this perception that Windows is really fast. Well, I have been running this for a couple of months, I think. Still zippy. HDD don’t compare. Can’t compare.
Well, I do know that Samsung makes other, good products. Thank you for the response. ;-)
They do a lot optimization to avoid writes, let alone "constant" writes, (and to load balance writes so the drives age evenly) and it's pre not post-process processing. And the drives are replaced under maintenance anyway.
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