Seagate Ships World’s First 8 TB Hard Disk

[harshilsharma63]

Source: Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB Hard Drives | Seagate

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Seagate 8 TB HDDs Widely Available Next Quarter, Shipping Now

These drives come in the standard 3.5" form factor and have SATA3 (6 Gb/s) interfaces. It remains unknown exactly how many platters are used in the drives. Aside from the capacity, physical size, and that it has a SATA3 interface, we weren't told more.

Fortunately, the press release did tell us that the drives would be widely available 'next quarter.' At that rate, it won't be reasonable to expect consumer-oriented 8 TB drives anytime this year, especially considering that Western Digital only just rolled out its 6 TB WD Green and WD Red consumer oriented drives.

 

[amjath]

any reports on hdd failure safety? if the hdd fails thats it 8tb of data gone for good

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these companies should release some relief information about hdd safety

 

[kg11sgbg]

any reports on hdd failure safety? if the hdd fails thats it 8tb of data gone for good

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these companies should release some relief information about hdd safety

+1, to this. Particularly,when one is using Seagate.

 

[amjath]

+1, to this. Particularly,when one is using Seagate.

dont say that, you scare me. I use 2tb HDD from seagate

 

[kg11sgbg]

^ Me having 3 HDD's from Seagate,in my PC. Two 500GB & one 250GB ,total 1.25TB and one WD Blue 1TB.

TOTAL CAPACITY : 2.25TB only.

 

[Vyom]

Rant mode: On

All that Jazz for GB's are good, but seriously, companies first focus should be on reliability. I bought WD 1 TB elements for a friend. Sucker thing is stopping working on random times. Best thing is that it started to happen only after warranty got expired. So, what do I do with this black box? Use it on display to showcase how beautiful is a black plastic box with a brand name on it? And where the hell do I keep the data? Its not like I can burn all that GB's of info on DVD's to take backup either. So we get stuck, until we can buy a new HDD. But this is not a solution. Since HDD's are not getting cheaper. They are only getting pricer with all this GB race.

 

[ankush28]

I never found my laptop using more than 100GB of HDD

Anyone please tell me what you have on your 2TB+ HDDs?

 

[Vyom]

I never found my laptop using more than 100GB of HDD

Anyone please tell me what you have on your 2TB+ HDDs?

Erm... HD movies? Steam games stretching to 16 GBs? Video editing and transcoding behemoth tools?
And then some.

 

[Flash]

I never found my laptop using more than 100GB of HDD

Anyone please tell me what you have on your 2TB+ HDDs?

Spoiler

A wise man once said "A good girlfriend can save 200GB of your HDD"

 

[harshilsharma63]

Spoiler

A wise man once said "A good girlfriend can save 200GB of your HDD"

LOL. But, that 200 GB data has it's own value

 

[rijinpk1]

Spoiler

A wise man once said "A good girlfriend can save 200GB of your HDD"

 

[amjath]

LOL. But, that 200 GB data has it's own value

own? own! values sounds kinky

 

[HBK007]

Speaking of reliability....
If someone has the money, he should buy two of those and put them on RAID 1 on a NAS.....8 TB is enough for all the human needs.
But an average joe should probably buy two 2 tb hdds and set them up on RAID 1.

 

[amjath]

Speaking of reliability....
If someone has the money, he should buy two of those and put them on RAID 1 on a NAS.....8 TB is enough for all the human needs.
But an average joe should probably buy two 2 tb hdds and set them up on RAID 1.

I'm using 2tb hdd and I'm planning for the same, but in the mean time I check my hdd status every now and then so that the health stays good

one bit off topic, can i add use two different speed hdd for raid 1 [if one goes one survives right]

 

[anirbandd]

seagate reliability discussion to p0rn rather fast

 

[SaiyanGoku]

So much anime to download, not enough space to keep them (4 TB here)

 

[HBK007]

I'm using 2tb hdd and I'm planning for the same, but in the mean time I check my hdd status every now and then so that the health stays good

one bit off topic, can i add use two different speed hdd for raid 1 [if one goes one survives right]

It is possible but not recommended. Altough a good idea and I will probably do my research on this....But AFAIK the lower speed of the two drives will be taken.
For the mean time you can go through the following websites:
Can you RAID two hard dives that have different speeds - Chipsets - Motherboards
*superuser.com/questions/257892/matched-or-unmatched-drives-for-raid-arrays

 

[amjath]

It is possible but not recommended. Altough a good idea and I will probably do my research on this....But AFAIK the lower speed of the two drives will be taken.
For the mean time you can go through the following websites:
Can you RAID two hard dives that have different speeds - Chipsets - Motherboards
*superuser.com/questions/257892/matched-or-unmatched-drives-for-raid-arrays

then choosing same speed with same capacity is wiser.

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TFS the link

 

[whitestar_999]

in my opinion RAID is unnecessary for simple storage needs.just add another hdd & copy paste all the files(read movies,music,setups etc).RAID is worth it when there is huge amount of data changing daily which is not the case for home users.another thing to note is that many hdd which work fine otherwise will not perform well with RAID setup & even fail much earlier.e.g.WD Green series has a much higher failure rate when used in RAID setup compared to the normal setup.

 

[Inceptionist]

If I had enough money, I'd rather get SSD.
Looks like companies aren't focusing on reliability because it will make consumers consider costly SSDs as an alternative?

*removes tin foil hat*