Seagate Announces World's First 4 TB Desktop Hard Drive

[btarunr]

Seagate today announced it is shipping a new 4TB GoFlex Desk external hard drive - the highest capacity hard drive in the industry. This latest addition to the GoFlex Family of external hard drives showcases Seagate's new desktop design. The streamlined industrial design delivers a smaller footprint and better reflects the aesthetic of today's modern offices while still providing all of the benefits of previous generations of the GoFlex drives. The new 4TB GoFlex Desk drive is now available from www.seagate.com and will be available from select online retailers within the month for a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $249.99 USD. The entire line of GoFlex Desk products will also adopt the new industrial design in the coming weeks. The GoFlex Desk for Mac external drive featuring both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 will be available in Apple stores by the end of the month.



"Yet another industry first for Seagate, we have reached a new high-capacity in the 3.5-inch hard drive form factor. At Seagate, we are committed to pushing the limits for our customers and will continue to adapt and innovate our products based on customer needs," said Patrick Connolly, vice president and general manager of Retail products for Seagate. "This latest GoFlex Desk drive offering, with its new industry-leading capacity point, is a statement of our continued commitment to meet consumer needs."

As more of our entertainment and personal data become digitized, the significance of greater access to local storage becomes increasingly more valued. The new GoFlex Desk 4TB drive has the space to contain over 2,000 HD movies. This new GoFlex Desk external drive comes at a time when people are archiving more of their memories in the form of digital photo and video.

"IDC foresees there being an increase in global demand for personal storage capacity driven by the growing creation and acquisition of digitized videos, photos and music," said Liz Conner, senior research analyst, Storage Systems, IDC.

Debuted in May of 2010, the award-winning GoFlex Family of hard drives provide an alternative approach to external storage solutions by allowing users to change interface adapters to stay current with the latest in interface technology. With USB 3.0 still undergoing adoption and the emergence of Thunderbolt technology in the coming months, the GoFlex adapter concept has been proven as an idea that works and Seagate plans to continue with this design for future iterations of the company's external hard drives. The GoFlex drives are also Windows and Mac OSX compatible and have the flexibility to go between both operating systems. In addition to cross-platform compatibility, the GoFlex Desk drive can also be utilized with the GoFlex Home adapter if one chooses to use it as a network drive.

With the pre-loaded back up software, the GoFlex Desk external drive provides automatic, continuous back with encryption for all your files. The included USB 3.0 adapter also works with USB 2.0 ports making it easy to connect to your Windows or Mac computer. The adapter also features an illuminated gauge to display available space on the drive.

The world's first 4TB hard drive, Seagate GoFlex Desk, available now for $249.99.

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[Deleted member 3]

Does this mean there is a single 3.5" 4TB disk inside?

 

[repman244]

Does this mean there is a single 3.5" 4TB disk inside?

Yes with 4 1TB platters.

 

[Deleted member 3]

Now we just have to wait for those disks to drop under €100

 

[repman244]

Now we just have to wait for those disks to drop under €100

Yep, I would still take one for ~130€ since 2TB ones are around 75€. I waited the whole summer to buy a new disk with the new platter density.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Pitty its seagate. any drive they make seems to have a high failure rate in general.

 

[NC37]

Didn't used to be. But they have had problem series from time to time.

So is this the new tech which makes the larger sizes viable? I remember that article where they really couldn't go farther until the tech was changed over because then you'd have too much of the disk taken up in the formatting.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yes with 4 1TB platters.

It might be 5 x 800 GB platters.

 

[repman244]

It might be 5 x 800 GB platters.

It might be but I remember that Seagate also has the 1TB per platter (it's actually Samsung that got them there but anyway).

Source: http://www.lickitysplit.com/tm-book.pdf

But yes it could be 5 platters.

 

[punani]

Bought myself a Seagate External desktop 1TB a while ago, got the infamous "click of death" after a few weeks... looked at forums and noticed alot of people having the same problem with very poor support from seagate.

So no more seagate for me.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yeah, they have 1 TB/platter offerings but they're thicker than standard. If it does have 4 x 1 TB platters, then they must have found a way to make each platter thinner. Alternatively they may have 3 x 1.33 TB platters with the same physical height.

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Time to wait for the internal model to replace my 10 2TB disks!

 

[joelthepc]

Reliability is probably the my biggest concern, but with Seagate I haven't had any horror stories yet. 4TBs is big!

 

[treehouse]

Pitty its seagate. any drive they make seems to have a high failure rate in general.

have used seagate for past 8 years and not had a single issue with them, had 1 external hard drive go faulty and that was a western digital. horses for courses

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have had 2 faulty hard drives from seagate. there are some users here who have as many as 4 or 8 failures in the space of 1-3years. since Seagate has bought Samsungs hard drive division. I'll probably make the switch to WD as I dont 100% trust toshiba on their reliability either.