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Seagate now shipping $260 8TB HDD, 3 cents per gig

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Nope, WD's 10TB will be coming out in 7200 RPM. Seagate just fell behind, as usual.

Exciting! However, I do believe that WD is using Helium filled tech for their 10TB drives, which as I understand it, is a more expensive (and faster/better) technology compared to Shingled tech.

 

Google doesn't even run enterprise grade drives and they're fine (Source: Dr. Keith Fricken, current google DBA and former professor of Miami University).

True, but google also has proper climate controlled data centres. Each and every rack in one of their data centres is most likely carefully monitored for temperature changes.

 

Some joker at home stuffing 10x 1TB Barracudas into a Antec Case inside his closet is not likely to have proper climate control going on. (FYI I'm not referencing anyone in particular).

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150MB/s isn't that bad considering how much storage you have on that drive. Considering that a WD Black is about the same speed.

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Exciting! However, I do believe that WD is using Helium filled tech for their 10TB drives, which as I understand it, is a more expensive (and faster/better) technology compared to Shingled tech.

 

True, but google also has proper climate controlled data centres. Each and every rack in one of their data centres is most likely carefully monitored for temperature changes.

 

Some joker at home stuffing 10x 1TB Barracudas into a Antec Case inside his closet is not likely to have proper climate control going on. (FYI I'm not referencing anyone in particular).

Both. Helium for platter count and SMR for data density per platter.

Their datacenters are maintained at 77-85F. Not exactly cool...

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Their datacenters are maintained at 77-85F. Not exactly cool...

True, but still within the rated range of operation. The advantage of climate control is that their system prevents the drives from 1) Getting too hot (absolute temperature),  2) From changing temperature too rapidly and 3) Getting too humid.

 

Google also has highly available systems, so they can afford to use cheap drives (downtime on a server doesn't take down the rest of the system).

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Wow, that's actually a really good price. That's like 3x 1tb WD blacks

 

Edit: And like 2x WD 2tb blacks

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Yes they are huge,but I'm not quite comfortable archiving my data on this drives lol

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Yes they are huge,but I'm not quite comfortable archiving my data on this drives lol

Why? Is there a reason for your discomfort?

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Why? Is there a reason for your discomfort?

 

Idk probably the fact that its cheap and low performance, do you think it will last a long time?

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guys remmeber it might be best to wait a couple months to see if these things are actually reliable. but if they are, then that is great I want need one!

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Idk probably the fact that its cheap and low performance, do you think it will last a long time?

I do think it will last a long time. It's in the HDD manufacturers best interest to make reliable drives, as the more drives that fail = lower profit margins, since they'll have to do more repairs/replacements.

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Due to countless incidents where Seagate products have failed, I have lost all faith in their products, as they fail on me time and time again.. to the point of not bothering with RMA. So a 8TB drive from them sounds like 260$ straight out the window.

 

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^^ This

You sir are just as unlucky as @Manifold then :P As many many more of us has had dozens of Seagate drives with no failures. If it keeps happening over and over again, then there's likely some external influence that is causing the failures (Bad postal service that's too rough, bad packaging, a defective component such as PSU, etc).

 

Either that, or you're literally just unlucky, and YOU happen to coincidentally be the one buying the very low amount of defective HDD's that come out of the factory.

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150MBps is not bad a nas with a 1gbps port max out at 128MPps so as nas drive the network would be the botelneck

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