Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive 316
MojoKid (1002251) writes Seagate announced today that it has begun shipping the world's first 8 Terabyte hard drive. The 8TB hard drive comes only five months after Western Digital released the first ever 6TB HDD. Up until then, Seagate's high capacity HDDs had been shipping only to select enterprise clients. The 8TB HDD comes in the 3.5-inch form factor and, according to the manufacturer, features a SATA 6Gbps interface and multi-drive RV tolerance which makes it suitable for data centers. It's unclear what technology the drive is based on, or if PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) or low-resistance helium technology was employed.
Re:Seagate failures (Score:2, Insightful)
Ive heard the same thing about WD drives...so NEVER AGAIN for WD drives, and NEVER AGAIN for Seagate drives, so now ill only buy......oh shit.
If this were a WD article (Score:4, Insightful)
Honestly if this were a WD article someone would come up with the same anecdote and a different brand. Every manufacturer has had bad batches. I too have had a Seagate fail. I also had a WD fail. Like 4 IBM drives fail, a Quantum drive fail.
So how quickly can you fill up a 8TB Seagate? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd guess 2TB, before it fails.