6 TB not enough for you? Seagate now has a 8 TB drive in the works - Polidicks

[url]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/seagates-new-8tb-hard-drive-is-for-all-you-digital-hoarders/[/url] [quote=Ars Technica]Solid-state drives get most of the love from gadget sites these days—they're faster and cheaper than ever, and they're a great way to extend the life of an older computer. If you need to store more than a terabyte of data, however, you still need to turn to old fashioned spinning hard drives. To that end, Seagate yesterday announced an 8TB hard drive that's a full two terabytes larger than the largest drives on the market today. The drive that's being announced is aimed at the enterprise market, so it's not something consumers will be able to get their hands on in the near-term—for now, the biggest drive available to most folks will be a mere 6TB in size. Once the 8TB begins shipping in bulk, though, we'd expect to see them available on sites like Newegg and Amazon, especially since they'll fit in current 3.5-inch drive bays.[/quote]

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I don't think I have enough shit to even fill a 8TB hard drive.

Going to remain rather optimistic about this since iirc Seagate still has the highest failure rates when it comes to HDDs. This is still pretty amazing though.

but since it's made by seagate it'll just die in 6 months

I would never store that much data on one physical disk. Don't want to lose everything if it breaks.

give me a thousand terabytes you fucking cowards

[QUOTE=meppers;45821047]but since it's made by seagate it'll just die in 6 months[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Egon Spengler;45821044]Going to remain rather optimistic about this since iirc Seagate still has the highest failure rates when it comes to HDDs. This is still pretty amazing though.[/QUOTE] Yep: [t]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/blog-fail-drives-manufacture.jpg[/t] (sauce: [url]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/[/url])

But will it blend?

I'd personally rather have 4 2TBs than 1 8TB regardless of the company. Recovery is much less devastating that way and I can store my most important files on each of the HDDs so that it isn't the end of the world if one bites the dust.

[QUOTE=The Duke;45821168]I'd personally rather have 4 2TBs than 1 8TB regardless of the company. Recovery is much less devastating that way and I can store my most important files on each of the HDDs so that it isn't the end of the world if one bites the dust.[/QUOTE] Think about instead having 4 8TBs though...

[QUOTE=TheJoker;45821029]I don't think I have enough shit to even fill a 8TB hard drive.[/QUOTE] I went from an 80GB hdd to a 1TB hdd. It filled up so fast. I have no idea what I even have on this thing.

I have 8 external HDD's that add up to 11 TB's. This would be could if they didn't crash a whole lot.

I've had a Seagate HDD for nearly 2 years and its worked flawlessly. I got a DOA 3tb from them recently, but it was under warranty so I had a replacement shipped. I got a 4tb instead of a 3tb and it works fine. Unless your doing heavy level shit with your Seagate drives you'll be fine.

[QUOTE=DemonDog;45821231]I went from an 80GB hdd to a 1TB hdd. It filled up so fast. I have no idea what I even have on this thing.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/rAyhGTj.png[/img] I don't even know how it's that full.

I would not trust any modern hard drive of that capacity unless it was part of a fault tolerant RAID. that's a lot of potentially lost data if shit hit the fan.

[QUOTE=pentium;45821257]I would not trust any modern hard drive of that capacity unless it was part of a fault tolerant RAID. that's a lot of potentially lost data if shit hit the fan.[/QUOTE] You don't trust any modern hardware :v:

[QUOTE=The Duke;45821168]I'd personally rather have 4 2TBs than 1 8TB regardless of the company. Recovery is much less devastating that way and I can store my most important files on each of the HDDs so that it isn't the end of the world if one bites the dust.[/QUOTE] Or you could just use said extra drives with automated back ups (ie RAID1). But if you do that, say using 2 as main drives and 2 as backups, then with the 2 TBs you're left with 4 TB total. If you used 8 TB drives you'd have you're original 16 TB. Bigger drive capacity is and always will be a trend. It usually means lower cost per storage space. "Man, why would I ever need more than a few floppy discs?" "I'd rather have 4 floppies than 1 CD" etc etc. I had a professor who, back in the day, worked with people that had the thought "Why would anyone ever need more than 2 MB RAM?" [editline]27th August 2014[/editline] and also i've had the same main, internal WD drive for 7 year and nothing bad has happened (knock on wood oh jesus)

The way I see this is that you can now have a more compact Nx8TB RAID system, where you can store 8TB of data with N:1 redundancy. That's useful.

And yet people will still bitch when their games are over 50 gigs

[QUOTE=Matthew0505;45821346]He could use 8 2TBs and nest the RAID levels to get the same effect.[/QUOTE] Still, eventually the price point will mean there is no reason [I]not [/I]to get the 8 TB drives. Go on newegg and look at the price of anything under 1 TB and tell me why you would get them over a regular 1 TB drive because "you don't need 1 TB at this point in time." Tip: the lowest priced, lowest capacity HDD on newegg is 250 GB / $26. New WD 1 TB HDDs are $55. 2x times the price for 4x times the space, and $30 ain't a whole lot.

Anything over 1TB from any HDD's company will have a higher failure rate than let's say a WD Green 1TB. You might as well buy 6 1TB WD caviar Blacks and call it done. But if you're looking for a HDD, don't ever buy Seagate, I interned at a computer store and about 99% of the problematic computers with hard drive related issues were Seagate<Toshiba<WD(I saw a singular WD blue fail, which was most likely due to misuse).

[QUOTE=Novangel;45821253][img]http://i.imgur.com/rAyhGTj.png[/img] I don't even know how it's that full.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/NNRm1qr.jpg[/img] It was red earlier but I deleted my downloads folder and then this happened

I put a brand new seagate 500gb hard drive in my laptop and someone bumped into it two days after it was installed and the head bent and became stuck on the ramp

It's actually strange, I've had nothing but Seagates in my machine save for a lone Samsung 500GB drive (and more recently a 256GB Samsung SSD that I've been too lazy to transfer my C: drive to) and besides one that failed recently after 5 years of use (that's 5 years of operating time, not 5 years from purchase to death) and started spitting out SMART errors, I've never had a Seagate die on me.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;45821087]Yep: [t]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/blog-fail-drives-manufacture.jpg[/t] (sauce: [url]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/[/url])[/QUOTE] No idea why people even consider Seagate a reputable hard drive manufacturer. Their desktop drives are absolute shit. Oddly enough there can be some gold found in that mound of shit because I admit I have an old 1TB Seagate drive that is still operational after ~4 years. Back in the day I used to think Hitachi was crap because their drives were often noisy but it turned out that even though they sounded bad they would never actually break down. Western Digital is the perfect mid-ground because their desktop drives last a long time and are generally quiet. Their WD Blue line is by far the best at least for longevity but their Black series drives are obviously geared towards performance. I've had many Black series drives fail me but every Blue I have bought are still functioning just fine. Blue is perfect for storing data and using it for gaming, I don't find that much of a difference in load times compared to a Black series drive. I just wish they would offer a larger size than a measly 1TB. 2TB is the perfect size for a drive. It's not too big so in the event of a failure you won't lose everything in the world to you like this 8TB drive.

Seagate 1 platter drives are great. It's when they move into multiple platters that they start to get large issues. And honestly I've gotten more Hitachi, Toshiba, and even WD drives in failed than Seagates lately.