Monday, February 3rd 2014
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Seagate Readies 6 Terabyte Hard Drive for Q2
Seagate is reportedly working on a 6 terabyte hard drive, which it plans to roll out in Q2 (April-June), 2014. According to leaked company road-maps, the drive could be launched in the later part of the quarter, and could be branded in the new Constellation ES.3 Megalodon series. The drive will be built in the 3.5-inch form-factor, its interface, however, remains unclear (whether it's SATA or SAS). The drive tucks in six 1000 GB platters. Competitor HGST's 6 TB Helium drive, in comparison, runs seven 857 GB ones. Given its enterprise credentials, Seagate could give it at least 7,200 RPM spindle speeds.
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49 Comments on Seagate Readies 6 Terabyte Hard Drive for Q2
Typically people have to pay for specific features. For example, if you want a fast drive you buy a smallish SSD for comparatively higher prices. If you want capacity you buy a comparatively larger 4TB HDD that costs more then a 1TB HDD. Therefore, there is absolutely no reason to think that a more durable and reliable HDDs wouldn't simply be another feature you pay for with respect to cheaper standard reliability HDDs.
I am sure there are a lot of people and organizations that would be happy to pay more for a more reliable HDD with a longer life but by the same token there would be a lot of people unwilling to pay more for something that can be so intangible (at least for a few years). Then there is always the unavoidable issue of bad hardware so one could pay a premium for a HDD that still went bad prematurely. So ultimately one would really be paying for longer likely service from the HDD and warranty period (maybe free data recovery).
But how much would one be willing to pay for supposedly longer HDD life / reliability,.....?
Would you pay $400 USD for that 4TB HDD,.....?
How about ~$600 USD,.....?
More,....?
If not why would the manufacturer bother even attempting to provide a superior product if people and organizations aren't willing to pay more for it,....?
You should think about it, maybe you're one of them.
Just my opinion.
6TB is a lot to back up though, maybe buy two and use the second as a backup, but what if that sods up. That's the trouble with having such big storage. I only have 2TB for storage, so have nothing to back it up on anyway.
Happy New Year!
But many people are just too lazy as I see. That's simple and would make the reading a lot better...
Unfortunately, not everybody really cares about it. Just my opinion.
Happy New Year!
Also, you have to take into account what a "drive failure" means to them. To them a drive failure is when a drive fails to respond to RAID commands (those have a timeout). A drive that starts up from sleep will fail these sooner or later but doesn't necesarily mean that the drive has gone bad, just that its spin up time has increased which is kind of normal considering that these green drives would spin down and up hundreds of times on a daily basis causing wear and tear to the motors.
A dead drive with 1.24Mb is just as bad as a dead drive with 6TB, if you aren't smart enough to backup then you get what you deserve. Vroom vroom.
btw, any word on the price yet?
it's true that i cant stand people making mistakes that change the meaning as well, there vs their vs they're for example
but given that i still had the correct number 6 & this thread is entirely about the new 6TB drives, along with the fact that i'm not a new user & run the catalyst profiles list, more signs simply point to it being a typo than an ignorant failure like MByte vs Mbit
so just say 'you mean TB :slap:' & be done with it, it's embarrassing enough when i spot the typo without others constantly pointing it out
(now that i look at it again, i mentioned 20gb games right after '6gb' hard drives, kinda obvious that 6gb is not what i meant :fear:)