Ho. Li. Crap! Eight Terabytes - from Hot Hardware:
Seagate Bulks Up With $260 8TB 'Archive' HDD
Have huge storage needs and don't mind making some sacrifices to score suitable drives at a great price? If so, you'll want to turn your attention to Seagate's just-announced 'Archive HDD' series, one that offers densities of 5TB, 6TB, and 8TB. That's right - 8TB. And a $260 8TB at that.
Back in 2007, Seagate was one of the first to release a hard drive based on perpendicular magnetic recording, a technology that was required to help us break past the roadblock of achieving more than 250GB per platter. Since then, PMR has evolved to allow the release of drives as large as 8TB, but to go beyond that, something new was needed. That "something new" is shingled magnetic
As its name suggests, SMR aligns drive tracks in a singled pattern, much like shingles on a roof. With this design, Seagate is able to cram much more storage into the same physical area. It should be noted that Seagate isn't the first out the door with an 8TB model, however, as HGST released one earlier this year. In lieu of a design like SMR, HGST decided to go the helium route, allowing it to pack more platters into a drive.
Very cool - storage space is getting to be a concern now that digital photographs are getting so large. The file sizes from my camera are in the 30MB range - adds up in a hurry especially when doing time-lapse and shooting several hundred exposures.
Don't see it on Amazon yet but I'll check in a month or two...
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