Posted on 07/17/2013 8:51:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Seagate Technology, one of the world’s largest hard disk drives makers, plans to add high-capacity models into its Terascale hard drive family in the first half of 2014. The new models will expand storage capacity
of enterprise-class capacity-oriented hard disk drives to 5TB and 6TB. It is likely that such HDDs will be based on new-generation platters.
According to Seagate enterprise hard drives roadmap published by Myce web-site, the new enterprise-class Terascale HDDs with 5TB and 6TB capacities due in the first half of 2014 will belong to the same code-named Constellation ES.3 “Megalodon” family as the current 4TB drives. The drives are likely to feature 5900rpm spindle speed, 64MB DDR2 cache as well as Serial ATA-600 interface. What is unclear is which platters will be featured in the 5TB and 6TB HDDs.
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The Terascale hard disk drives are based on enterprise-class platform with high vibration tolerance (HVT) technology and provide data centers with the maximum storage scalability they need to meet demands in low workload, 24x7 replicated environments. Equipped with Seagate’s own Instant Secure Erase (ISE) technology, the Terascale HDD saves money and time by reducing drive erasure times from hours to milliseconds providing quick, safe and easy drive disposal or repurposing.
Separately, Seagate prepares to put its Cheetah 15K.7, Savvio 10K.5 and some other hard drives into LTS status, which essentially means that it will supply such drives until there is demand, but will not introduce any new models. The code-named Valkyrie enterprise-performance drives will likely be enterprise-grade solid-state hard drives and will not be pure SSDs.
Seagate did not comment on the news-story.
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I would assume this is all for server farm use ... what with the cloud and all.
Yeah, or as my buddy who is an ISP points out, “Data Center” nowadays generally is a euphemism for “My Porn Stash” ;-)
LOL!
Video playout servers...huge market, tremendous thirst for high capacity, low latency, low power.
Thanks
That’s almost enough room to store all the B&W photos of Obama’s mother posing naked for porn magazines.
>>..huge market, tremendous thirst for high capacity, low latency, low power.<<
The same for Russian brides...
>>My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.<<
The first HD I had was 5MB Winchester. It was better than the 8” floppies we had to carefully store.
And we had to write our programs in Z80 ASM
AND WE LIKED IT!!!
A 64 bit address space is in excess of 180,000 terabytes.
My wife gave me a 20 meg drive as a Christmas present when we had our original Mac 128...oh, the thrill of such massive, nearly unlimited storage compared to those floppy drives! I remember it cost $600.
What comes after tera?
Not funny.
Ijust bought a 4 Tbyte Seagate 5900 rpm drive for less than 1/3 of that cost....before Cal State Taxes...kicked in.
LOL!
“What comes after tera?”
General Sherman.
OMG...they’re $170 on Amazon, now.
/HDD junkie
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