Seagate Wolves are howling out 18TB drives

[snortingfrogs]

The kings at Seagate has launched 3 new drives, one 18TB HDD and 2 SATA SSD's.

 

 

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Seagate has launched three IronWolf NAS drives – an 18TB range-topping disk and two SATA interface SSDs.

 

My thoughts

 Bigger disks, more space for a hoarder like me, bring it on!

 

Sources

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/09/01/seagate-ironwolf-nas-drives/

[Trik'Stari]

I need it.

[pythonmegapixel]

Who needs 18TB in their PC...? Surely this has to be aimed at server applications or long term storage.

 

Edit: yeah just spotted they're NAS drives. It's still a crazy amount of storage but... whatever, I guess.

[nick name]

4 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Who needs 18TB in their PC...? Surely this has to be aimed at server applications or long term storage.

 

Edit: yeah just spotted they're NAS drives. It's still a crazy amount of storage but... whatever, I guess.

Anyone with a large digital collection of anything.  

[Windows7ge]

18TB eyh?

So long as it isn't based on the horrid SMR technology.

[givingtnt]

@seagate_surfer 

[givingtnt]

24 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Who needs 18TB in their PC...? Surely this has to be aimed at server applications or long term storage.

 

Edit: yeah just spotted they're NAS drives. It's still a crazy amount of storage but... whatever, I guess.

You clearly have not played Modern Warfare.

[trag1c]

45 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Who needs 18TB in their PC...? Surely this has to be aimed at server applications or long term storage.

 

Edit: yeah just spotted they're NAS drives. It's still a crazy amount of storage but... whatever, I guess.

Any digital media files such as 3D models, textures, photography, video, sound recordings ect. Now you throw version control on top of that which includes untold amounts of data duplication because the vast majority of version control cannot properly handle binary assets. If you have a 1GB file and you make 3 distinct edits to it you now have 4GB of storage taken up by that one file. You multiply that by even 4000 similar files and that entire 18TB drive is just about full. Its really not hard to fill that amount of storage. A properly version controlled large content indie game could even approach several to 10s or 100s of TBs. You look at an AAA title at you're easily at the Petabytes mark. 

 

Even on my own NAS some of my working folders for my own electrical and mechanical CAD projects are hitting about 50GB with my revisions taking way more than that.

[StDragon]

1 hour ago, Trik'Stari said:

I need it.

That's what s....ahh, never mind.

[Trik'Stari]

11 minutes ago, comander said:

For laughs - imagine placing two in a NAS, one being a mirror. 

 

You have 10 security cameras that each record at 15Mbps

 

 

It adds up...

 

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You could make an argument about compression or deleting old footage. Either way anyone who wants to archive events will be facing a capacity limit. 

Or those interested in gathering more.... scientific data.

 

Spoiler

 

[AlTech]

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

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I believe all Seagate drives above 8TB or 10TB are CMR. All of their NAS drives are CMR anyways.

[Elvara]

I really thought HDD was really getting at the end of the capacity increase 16TB was already pretty good but 18TB now while keeping the same size, that's really crazy I mean I still had some 500GB and 1TB, I destroyed not so long ago (I never resell storage) and those were around 10 years old I guess well it was the series before the caviar green came out.

 

I really wonder what's the max capacity we'll see for HDD for a 3.5 size.

[StDragon]

14 hours ago, comander said:

For laughs - imagine placing two in a NAS, one being a mirror. 

 

You have 10 security cameras that each record at 15Mbps

 

 

It adds up...

 

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You could make an argument about compression or deleting old footage. Either way anyone who wants to archive events will be facing a capacity limit. 

Yup. Spot on.

 

Or you could double the frame rate to 30fps for 25Mps.

 

Same setup as above (1080 w/ h.265), but at 30fps would give you 60 days of retention requiring just over 15TB of capacity. Or at 15fps, that double to 120 days of retention. 

[Mark Kaine]

17 hours ago, trag1c said:

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There are clearly good reasons for big storage, I myself are already close to the limit and already copied tons to external to free up some space too on my 4TB X300 after just a few months but the poster still has a point,  most PC users (gaming,  office) won't ever need that much space,  1-2TB is usually sufficient  and in today's throwaway digital culture they also don't mind deleting a game after they're "done" with it. 

 

 

So yeah you're not wrong, but on the other hand not everyone needs that much storage obviously (which also probably comes at a prohibitive cost factor) 

[MageTank]

Wow, considering the price I paid for my four 4TB IronPups, the asking price for this drive isn't all that bad. The only problem would be having to buy another 4 for a RAID6 setup, lol.