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Seagate announces World’s First 8TB 3.5-inch Hard Drive

During the latter part of 2013, Western Digital surprised the tech industry with the release of two Helium-filled 6TB hard drives which was the highest capacity at that time. Nine months later, Seagate snatches the crown away from WD with the announcement of the world’s first 8TB 3.5-inch HDD.

In the press release, Seagate VP for Marketing Scott Hom said that the company’s new hard drive will address most of the issues that both private and cloud-based data centers encounter by allowing them to scale up their existing storage arrays with one slot having the ability to store up to 8TB worth of data.

Seagate 8TB HDD

In a separate statement, John Rydning of International Data Corporation (IDC) praised Seagate’s new 8TB drive stating that it “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.”

Shipment of the new Seagate 8TB hard drive has already started to select customers, with wide scale availability expected to take place next quarter.

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This article was written by Ronnie Bulaong, a special features contributor and correspondent for YugaTech. Follow him on Twitter @turonbulaong.

3 Responses

  1. Avatar for Bbbbbbbb Bbbbbbbb says:

    No doubt about that. It’s enevitable or it could be better than what you imagined.

  2. Avatar for Bbbbbbbb Bbbbbbbb says:

    No doubt about that. It’s enevitable or it could be better than what you imagined. :)

  3. Avatar for Aaaaaaaaa Aaaaaaaaa says:

    I can’t wait that the 8TB will just be as small as the micro SDs that we have right now. This is not impossible. :)

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