Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB Hard Drives
August 26 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
8TB Hard Drives Boast Ultra-High Capacity,
Energy-Efficiency and the Lowest TCO in the Industry
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced it is shipping the world’s first 8TB
hard disk drive. An important step forward in storage, the 8TB hard
disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with
supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of
ownership (TCO) in the industry for cloud content, object storage
and back-up disaster recovery storage.
“As our world becomes more mobile, the number of devices we use
to create and consume data is driving an explosive growth in
unstructured data. This places increased pressure on cloud builders
to look for innovative ways to build cost-effective, high capacity
storage for both private and cloud-based data centers,” said Scott
Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “Seagate is poised to
address this challenge by offering the world’s first 8TB HDD, a
ground-breaking new solution for meeting the increased capacities
needed to support the demand for high capacity storage in a world
bursting with digital creation, consumption and long-term
storage.”
A cornerstone for growing capacities in multiple applications,
the 8TB hard drive delivers bulk data storage solutions for online
content storage providing customers with the highest capacity
density needed to address an ever increasing amount of unstructured
data in an industry-standard 3.5-inch HDD. Providing up to 8TB in a
single drive slot, the drive delivers maximum rack density, within
an existing footprint, for the most efficient data center floor
space usage possible.
“Public and private data centers are grappling with efficiently
storing massive amounts of unstructured digital content,” said John
Rydning, IDC’s research vice president for hard disk
drives. “Seagate’s new 8TB HDD provides IT managers with a new
option for improving storage density in the data center, thus
helping them to tackle one of the largest and fastest growing data
categories within enterprise storage economically.”
The 8TB hard disk drive increases system capacity using fewer
components for increased system and staffing efficiencies while
lowering power costs. With its low operating power consumption, the
drive reliably conserves energy thereby reducing overall operating
costs. Helping customers economically store data, it boasts the
best Watts/GB for enterprise bulk data storage in the industry.
“Cleversafe is excited to once again partner with Seagate to
deliver to our customers what is truly an innovative storage
solution. Delivering absolute lowest cost/TB along with the
performance and reliability required for massive
scale applications, the new 8TB hard disk drive is ideal for
meeting the needs of our enterprise and service
provider customers who demand optimized hardware and
the cost structure needed for massive scale out,”
said Tom Shirley, senior vice president
of research and development, Cleversafe.
Outfitted with enterprise-class reliability and support for
archive workloads, it features multi-drive RV tolerance for
consistent enterprise-class performance in high density
environments. The drive also incorporates a proven SATA 6Gb/s
interface for cost-effective, easy system integration in both
private and public data centers.
Shipping drives to select customers now with wide scale
availability next quarter.
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Printed in the United States of America. Seagate, Seagate
Technology and the Wave logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or
other countries. When referring to drive capacity, one terabyte, or
TB, equals one thousand billion bytes. Your computer’s operating
system may use a different standard of measurement and report a
lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used
for formatting and other functions and will not be available for
data storage.
Seagate Technology plcJon Piazza,
408-658-1715jon.v.piazza@seagate.com
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