Seagate Vows to Introduce 6TB Hard Drive in April.

Xbitlabs ^ | [01/27/2014 04:39 AM] by Anton Shilov | by Anton Shilov

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seagate Technology said at a conference call with investors and financial analysts that it would release a hard disk drive with 6TB capacity in the beginning of the second quarter, 2014. The company did not reveal a lot of details about the upcoming product, but noted that this would be an enterprise-class hard drive.

“We are continuing to expand our offering of high capacity drives with our six-disk, 6TB drive shipping early next quarter,” said Steve Luczo, chairman and chief executive of Seagate.

At present 6TB hard disk drives in 3.5” form-factor are available exclusively from Western Digital Corp.’s HGST. Those drives are based on the HelioSealed platform and are filled with helium, which allows to install up to seven platters into an industry-standard package.

[HangnJudge]

My first HD (1985)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Disk_20

[Sherman Logan]

The first hard drive I used was 15M. LOL

Thought there was no way it could ever be filled up.

[Squawk 8888]

The cost per byte is still lower than flash memory, and access times are faster.

[nascarnation]

Back sometime in the 80s we were all in awe of a chick in our dept that got an IBM pc with a 10m hard drive.

Everybody else was flopping, LOL.

[Sherman Logan]

why are there still hard drives?

In theory SSDs should be faster, more reliable and use less juice.

But they keep improving hard drives so fast SSDs haven't really had a chance to catch up, at least when price is factored in.

SSDs presently seem to cost 4x to 8x as much as an equivalent HDD. $500+ for a 1 TB, when I can go to Costco and walk out with a wallet size 1 TB HDD for considerably less than $100.

And I keep hearing stories about SSDs not being as dependable in practice as theory says they ought to be.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

My first was an IBM model 55, 20 meg hardrive, 286 processor. Had to add a 1 mg memory stick that cost $600

I still boot it up for legacy DOS games like Duke Nukum.

[JoeProBono]

Hitachi delivers first 6TB hard drive 05 Nov 2013

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2305098/hitachi-delivers-first-6tb-hard-drive

[SkyDancer]

Found this:

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[wally_bert]

That would be a major step for Seagate.

[SkyDancer]

And This

And Lastly

[Starstruck]

My first was an IBM model 55, 20 meg hardrive, 286 processor.

Intel 33? What was I thinking? It was the 286 processor. Windows 3.0 Didn't even go there. Xtree Gold in DOS was my file manager. Didn't see the point of windows until 3.1.

I built so many computers during the 90's for my teenage son and myself that I lost count. Now I just wait for them to crash before I get a new one.

[holden]

Oh, and my home movie library is 12TB among 3-4TB Seagate expansion drives. Cost of hardware: <$500. The space is entirely taken up (well, all but .6TB) with my home movies.   ;-)
HF

[Starstruck]

Ah, it was 33 MHz

[dangerdoc]

“I suppose the question needs to be asked: why are there still hard drives?”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

That and a lot of people buy storage by the terabyte.

I have 3 terabytes spinning in the basement as a personal cloud server and probably twice that in backups and less essential stuff stuck in the fire safe.

[Wiggins]

Three of these will be nice in my media server. I’ll need three more for the backup. LOL.

[W.]

My first desktop had a 1.2 GB HDD that cost $280 circa 1996.

This Toshiba laptop has a 250 GB drive, I've had it for over 3.5 years, saved a ton of stuff, videos and a couple hundred music albums and have only managed to use up 70 gigs of storage.

Also grew fond of playing Duke Nukem, then and now.

[Wiggins]

Better yet maybe I'll get just get something like this.

[Marine_Uncle]

The technologies sure appear to be marching onward. Things tend to blur on past systems owned by me. First mass storage my first Z80 System at 3.3mhz., had was a dual drive 8 inch floppy disk system. If memory is correct. System had four 4K RAM cards I built from kits. That was back in I believe 1975 or so.

[ThunderSleeps]

That's what I was thinking. Intro in April, full by May... ;-)

I remember working with a whopping 5MB hard disk that was in a cabinet the size of a 2 draw filing cabinet. Cutting edge at the time. Now, 5MB is lost in the noise, storage is in terms of TB for main systems and GB for phones, thumb drives, tablets, etc. Nobody talks MB anymore...

[Labyrinthos]

Why would any consumer or even a small business want or need a 6TB hard drive? Supersized hard drives take longer to back-up, restore, wipe, and maintain (i.e., defrag, scandisk, etc.). And even if I had enough photos, music, videos, and other files to file a 6TB hard drive, I wouldn’t want all that important data on one disk at the risk of a hard drive failure. Yes, I realize that these issues can be mitigated by partitioning the hard drive, but this is far beyond the expertise of most consumers and I have had entire hard drives fail notwithstanding partitions. Seems to me that the better approach is to have multiple smaller hard drives — one for the OS and programs, one for data and media files, and one for backing up the other two.