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Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the thought-you'd-like-to-see-my-vacation-slides dept.

MojoKid writes Seagate's just-announced a new 'Archive' HDD series, one that offers capacities of 5TB, 6TB, and 8TB. That's right, 8 Terabytes of storage on a single drive and for only $260 at that. Back in 2007, Seagate was one of the first to release a hard drive based on perpendicular magnetic recording, a technology that was required to help us break past the roadblock of achieving more than 250GB per platter. Since then, PMR has evolved to allow the release of drives as large as 10TB, but to go beyond that, something new was needed. That "something new" is shingled magnetic recording. As its name suggests, SMR aligns drive tracks in a singled pattern, much like shingles on a roof. With this design, Seagate is able to cram much more storage into the same physical area. It should be noted that Seagate isn't the first out the door with an 8TB model, however, as HGST released one earlier this year. In lieu of a design like SMR, HGST decided to go the helium route, allowing it to pack more platters into a drive.

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  1. Re:Just in time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you are better off with generation-1 than generation-current.

    never trust the very leading edge. and, we're talking seagate, here; their enterprise drives are ok but I wouldn't touch them, these days, for consumer drives. no way!

    no way I'm trusting helium, either; since it escapes and makes the drive useless a few years down the line.

    But you'll be able to tell when that happens when your voice gets really squeaky.

  2. Ok, let's hear all the stories how Seagate sucks by SensitiveMale · · Score: 5, Funny

    and then let's hear about how it's all anecdotal evidence.

    Then someone will bring out the backblaze survey.

    Then someone will say "They've never had a problem with Seagate, but WD sucks."

    Then someone will lament how IBM no longer makes drives. Then the deskstar stories will start.

    In other words, the same responses every time a hard drive story is posted.

  3. Re: Helium and the density of the disc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > So...it's magic?

    Could be. Or, it could be sufficiently advanced technology-- it's hard to tell.

  4. Re:Just in time. by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Funny

    easily fixed with autotune...

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    "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
  5. Re: Helium and the density of the disc by iggymanz · · Score: 3, Funny

    fucking helium, how does it work