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Seagate has launched an 8TB disk drive for surveillance use, enabling up to 6PB of CCTV data in a rack.
This is a 3.5-inch form-factor drive and joins the existing set of 8TB Archive, Enterprise Capacity, Enterprise NAS and Kinetic disk drives. It follows on from the 6TB model announced in September last year. That had 6 platters and a 642Gbit/in2 areal density.
Seagate says the 8TB disk has 1.33TB/platter, which we calculate to mean about 854Gbit/in2 IT comes in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8TB capacity points, and features;
- 7,200rpm spin speed
- 6Gbit/s SATA interface and up to 256MB cache
- Up to 230MB/sec sustained transfer speed for 8TB capacity; 180MB/sec at lower capacities
- 64 cameras supported
- Rotational vibration sensors enabling it to work reliably in 8-bay and larger enclosures
- Designed for 24 x 7 operation and up to 180TB/year workload, the same as the shingled 8TB Archive drive which spins at 5,900rpm
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An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Sunday November 01 2015, @07:10PM
Seagate = shit. It's been that way for a long time and it remains that way. Over the last three years I've bought three Seagate external HDs and ALL of them have gone bad. I've gone to Costco to replace them and two of the Seagates I've bought from them were bad, generating write errors or so MacOS X is reporting. The latest dead one is sitting on the floor in my office until I can return it to Costco. I will never buy a Seagate product again. Never, never, never!
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:49AM
Yes they are shit BUT they DO have their uses. What would that be? Simple...scratch drives. I have plenty of customers that do A/V work, graphic art work, or other uses that have large temp files, we're talking upwards of 40GB+ for a single temp file is quite doable and they can be working on a dozen projects at once, for those types of tasks? The cheap Seagate drives are just perfect, in fact I picked up a 3TB Seagate for doing my multitrack editing and temp files for game streaming footage. If this drive dies? Meh, I have the original files in FLAC format or in the case of the game footage it just gives me an excuse to play more.
So even Seagate has its uses, its just rather niche. Would I use the 3TB as a main drive? Oh fuck no, what are you nuts? That is what my SSD is for, maybe backups? Again not a chance, that is what the twin 2TB Samsung Ecogreens are in my system to do, but why add wear and tear to those drives when all I'm doing is messing with large scratch files? Better to just throw all the temp stuff on the cheap ass Seagate, for that job it works just fine.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:46PM
Meh, that's how I feel about WD. Never seen a Western Digital drive make it longer than 2 years. Never seen a Seagate fail at all. YMMV.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:56PM
Then you have either 1.- Gotten VERY lucky, or 2.- Buy 1TB and under drives exclusively, because above 1TB? the Seagates are just garbage, I've thrown more 1.5TB and above Seagates in the trash at the shop than all other brands COMBINED.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @01:17PM
Yeah, all the 1TB+ drives that I own are HGST.
And yes, I realize they're owned by WD now.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:11PM
Actually HGST is a subsidiary of WD which is a VERY important difference! If they had been bought out and dismantled like Seagate did to Samsung that would be one thing, but in the case of Hitachi they kept the Hitachi plant and production facility as is. So when you buy an HGST its no different than when it was run by Hitachi, the only difference is who does the distribution.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.