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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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.
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