Seagate 8 TB HDDs Widely Available Next Quarter, Shipping Now

[ickibar1234]

Tek, I've been told "no, we're at our limits of mechanical reads..."

I heard this in 1988, too. 1995. Onward.

And actually, if I think about it, all drives are RAIDs. I mean - what's a RAID? "Data recorded across drives", right? So, when I have 2 or 5 platters inside a drive casing, aren't I "writing across platters/drives", therefore? Bits here, bytes there?

Yes. The Formal RAID is now "spanning platter-writing across more platters" now. I do wonder what happened to those 36-inch pizza platters that IBM installed in so many systems in the 80s...

"Welcome to Dominos!" Ah yes...

Internal RAID across the platters doesn't happen, because there is an offset somehow. I don't know if it's by sector or by track but with a sequential read or write, I know more platters doesn't equal more performance, or not more than 10% or so going from 1 platter to 4+ platters of the same density/product family. It's too bad, it would be great to see.


WD's 6TB red and I think 6TB green 5400RPM drives use 1.2TB/platter with no helium.
Will Seagate do the same with 8TB and 7 platters or will they have to use helium? 6 platters at 1.5TB/platter?

Can't wait for these to reach consumer level, then finally 3TB , 4TB drives will get into the $100 dollar range after what, 4 years of stagnation!?

 

[christinebcw]

We might also giggle about the number of screw-holes that this Seagate casing will offer. They're down to 4 on their 6Tb models.

Icki, I completely agree with the lengthy price stagnation. But memory's there, too - it doubled but it's never retreated back, and I think both HDD and incredibly high mem prices have as much to do with the custom-PC plummet as anything else.

 

[lp231]

I remember them old Seagate HDD that to used to come with a rubber layer to protect its circuit board. WD had a metal cover, but was for a brief time.

 

[christinebcw]

After Icki brought up the Helium issues, I shouldn't have made jokes about Seagates' possible changes to drive screw-holes.

Those could be "tether holes" now.

 

[Informant]

PoE is the true D3.