Seagate is aiming the new drive at cloud-based data storage needs, which are expanding all the time with no ceiling in sight. It has seven platters and 14 heads, and the drive seals in helium to create a quiet, turbulence-free environment, decreasing both friction and resistance on the platters and delivering a low power-per-terabyte ratio. In theory, Seagate’s 10TB PMR helium-filled drive should have very similar performance and power characteristics to the 10TB HGST drive.
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Seagate is launching the drive in 6Gb/s SATA and 12Gb/s SAS interface flavours, though is presently only sampling to selected customers with no news on general availability nor – crucially – price.
The Enterprise NAS drive’s 5-year warranty is reduced to 3 years with this SMB NAS drive.
Seagate has also announced an 8TB NAS HDD drive, built for small business, personal cloud and multimedia storage, complementing the 8TB Enterprise NAS HDD launched in September previous year.
“With the amount of data today growing at an increasingly rapid rate, we are always on the lookout for storage solutions that offer better performance with lower overhead”, Huawei’s President of Storage Products, Fan Ruiqi, said in a statement. With that said, as drives grew to gargantuan proportions, critics were quick to point out that the larger the drive, the more you can potentially lose at failure.
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Like the 10 TB enterprise drive, the new 8 TB NAS drive is shipping to select customers now, and is expected to hit the wider market by the end of Q1 2016. However, we strongly believe that such hard drives will carry smaller capacities because it will become relatively difficult for the company to incorporate large storage platters in a smaller form factor. The 8TB model complements the 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, and 6TB models Seagate already offers. So far, HGST has shipped over four million helium-filled hard drives and in in the recent quarters adoption of such HDDs intensified among its customers. All rights reserved. Seagate, Seagate Technology, PowerChoice, PowerBalance and the Seagate logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. In the world of computers, it is often assumed that larger capacity drives are a positive.
