8TB Drvies from Seagate coming soon. 20TB drives not that far off either

I loved samsung drives, havent an issue with any of the 12 or so i have bought. Seagate however, I have 3, 1 outright refuses to initialize anymore in a raid array, and crashed my server 3 times when trying to do a full format on it. Managed to get it to format now, but its just going to used a drive for an extra copy of stuff, until I get a second raid 6 8 drive array on the go.
Combined with seeing backblazes results, I wouldnt touch them.
Im going WD reds or hitcahi in the future for my drive needs. Hoping my last 2.5TB space on my array lasts long enough for me to afford it.
 
Sounds great but bet they are for business models only for now.

May take quite a bit of time before any consumer 8tb drives appear but it will be great since we need 4tbs to drop sharply in price !
 
chippy08 said:
Can you trust a seagate drive i know i couldnt.
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I've got 100's of Seagates in use at the moment in my storage array, their failure rate is no worse than the western digital drives we get with our HP servers etc...

Certainly don't have a problem with using them at home (I've got 8 4TB models in my microservers)
 
Tombo said:
I'd be worried about a failure with a disk that size, I'm already concerned with my 3TB drives :p
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Splitting data over more drives just increases your chances of failure.

But I agree, it is a lot of data to lose. Perhaps running two with the same data would be better as youd still have 20tb of space but half your chances of losing your data.
 
I still have a 250GB seagate that's been running almost non stop for around 6 years.

I've had seagates fail, i've had hitachis fail, i've had WD fail. Hard drives are hit and miss for reliability no matter the brand.
 
1 single 8tb disk or 10tb would be awesome as a backup drive.

Wouldnt like to think of the cost these new drives will be. Hell a 6tb one costs a lot already.

If and when they get to sub £100 for a one that size, will be the day i buy one. :P
 
panyan said:
Splitting data over more drives just increases your chances of failure.

But I agree, it is a lot of data to lose. Perhaps running two with the same data would be better as youd still have 20tb of space but half your chances of losing your data.
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Er, it's called RAID?

4 disk RAID 5 array of 4 x 10TB drives would do me quite nicely :D
 
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