When Seagate announced last week that it is shipping the world’s first 8TB hard drive, the technology press stood up and took notice. Check out a roundup of coverage, below; click on the links for the full stories.
Extreme Tech: “Seagate, after hinting in May that it would release 8TB and 10TB hard drives in the next 12 months, has started delivering early samples of its 8TB hard drives to enterprise customers. While Western Digital hit 6TB last year by filling its drives with helium, Seagate appears to be pushing the storage envelope by simply increasing areal density. WD, incidentally, despite being the first to 6TB, hasn’t announced anything new since November. Maybe helium wasn’t quite ready for prime time?”
PC World: “Seagate’s monstrous 8TB hard drive is the most spacious storage yet. The new drives aren’t for consumers just yet and are specifically designed for enterprise data centers that need major disk capacity. But there will almost certainly come a day in the not too distant future when 8TB drives will be available for your tower of power sitting at home. If you use your gaming PC for stashing personal files as well as games, an 8TB drive probably can’t come fast enough.“
Maximum PC: “Further distancing itself from the stone age of storage, Seagate has begun shipping the world’s first 8TB hard drive. The feat comes a mere five months after Western Digital’s HGST subsidiary shipped the first 6TB HDD—could a capacity war be at hand? Seagate seems to be taking aim at data centers and cloud computing providers, though the thought of slapping several of these drives in a NAS box has us salivating at the sheer amount of storage space.”
Computerworld: “Seagate today announced it’s shipping to enterprise customers the world’s first 8TB hard drive, raising the bar against rivals such as Western Digital, which uses helium to boost its own drive capacity. Just four months ago, Seagate released its first 6TB, enterprise-class hard drive, which was 28 percent faster than its earlier 4TB drive.”
Geek.com: “Solid-state drives are much faster, smaller and much more energy efficient, but they can’t yet compete on storage capacity (with traditional hard drives), and Seagate has just set the bar higher with an 8TB hard drive. 8TB drives mean more storage in the same space, which ends up being cheaper in the long term. You’re getting an extra 25 percent storage in the same footprint, with lower overall power consumption.”
BetaNews: “Today, Seagate begins shipping 8TB hard drives. I already want one. You can free up SATA connectors and lower energy costs by utilizing one drive instead of multiple. Think of it this way. I already own a 4TB drive. If I add a second 4TB drive instead of replacing the first with an 8TB variant, I will be wasting a SATA port and using more electricity. For a home user, this isn’t a huge deal, but in a server environment it can really add up.” —Originally written by Seagate Communications staff
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