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Seagate starts shipping 8TB hard drives that cost only $260
*Taps foot impatiently while glaring at OCUK*
*Taps foot impatiently while glaring at OCUK*
Seagate shipping 8tb drives
- Thread starter oxygene
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Hmmms According to XE.com 260usd is 165gbp. but that doesnt matter because with electronics 100usd ends up as 100gbp!
Either way, out of all the drives I've had seagate have always been my most reliable. I know other people have different experiences but you stick to what you know!
Either way, out of all the drives I've had seagate have always been my most reliable. I know other people have different experiences but you stick to what you know!
8tb of ticking timebomb
Lol, I remember people saying similar for every new hd size!
"100mb! I'd die if that failed and I lost everything!!!"
Yeah but it always ends up costing us way more then USD exchange rate. Its a real shame.
See I've never been too worried about that whole aspect. Anything important I keep on a mirrored raid NAS. Everything on these drives... well lets just say I have decent enough internet to get most things on demand if they go missing. Having the drive just saves me searching.
Ofcourse this logic doesnt apply to people who use it for mass video editing of their private stash, but these are aimed at infrequent use archiving.
Ofcourse this logic doesnt apply to people who use it for mass video editing of their private stash, but these are aimed at infrequent use archiving.
They look good for my 1000 game library
Hehe theres that. Mine are busting at the seams of a 250gb ssd. No matter how much space you have its never enough!
True, I think between Titanfall, COD AW, and BF4 they're taking up circa 180GB and that's not taking in to account any future DLC's
Hehe try adding things like Borderlands (1) in there, and warcraft. Those hitch up 25gb each I think! They're my biggest space hogs. Although I retired warcraft to an archive drive a year or two back when I stopped playing, I still cant pursuade myself to part with Borderlands 1, not enjoyed 2 and 3!
Ofcourse its a good thing my most played games are small things like terraria, factorio, and minecraft!
Holy bananas! Glad I stopped playing the CoD franchise
My poor internet connection would melt with that!<3 Terraria 10mbyte. 950hours and counting. bought for £1.50. Thats the best value for money and storage I have ever had
But thats only because steam doesnt time my minecraft usage! That would be in the several thousand easily!
Any news yet!
Indeed he said availability end of Jan but pricing soon, so was hoping I could get a goal to save for hehe. If they do come in under £200 its a definite purchase!
When are these out in the UK?
I could do with one ASAP!
You and me both! Even if I cant afford this and it just exists to make 4tbs pennies I will be happy
Yup Yup so theres a big market for it OCUK! Availability End of Jan? Well thats now 
Lets see whats coming!
Lets see whats coming!
Are you sure about that? The only 8tb seagate externals I can see are 2x 4tbs in a dual bay
Amazing! with a quick calculation of the seagate line, the 3TB is still the best gb per £ but god these are going to drive some prices down!
I think we are at a time in life where the lifespan of misusing hardware is longer then the lifespan of said hardware becoming obsolete.
For example, overclocking processors takes their lifespan from 50 years to like 10 years or something I remember reading a while back. Anyone who overclocks likely replaces the processors every few years.
Same with storage drives. Anyone using desktop drives as always on server / nas drives likely would replace them every few years with greater capacities anyway.
I generally ignore the lifetime reduction warnings...
For example, overclocking processors takes their lifespan from 50 years to like 10 years or something I remember reading a while back. Anyone who overclocks likely replaces the processors every few years.
Same with storage drives. Anyone using desktop drives as always on server / nas drives likely would replace them every few years with greater capacities anyway.
I generally ignore the lifetime reduction warnings...
Tut. Bunch of moaners! If it's cheaper than 2x 4gb then what's the tears for hehe. If it's cheaper elsewhere go elsewhere but I tend to find ocuk cheaper when you balance out things like free p+p and their customer service and forums features.
Personally I would use this for videos and such, but not so much for games. Stuff that wont be accessed often or not many writes and rewrites. But then I do the same on all large drives, mainly because I tend to buy slightly cheaper and slower drives.
FYI, Seagate continues it's great rep for HDDs. One of mine failed within 33 days of use... Luckily no important data on it or data I don't have elsewhere but still... Great quality!!!
See this is odd, everyone I know has such different experiances on harddrives. Personally I've had hitatchi, WD, and toshiba all fail on me 100%, but Seagate I've never lost one. But I know other people who have lost all their Seagates and swear by WD.
I guess its just RNG trolling us!
And all 3 Seagate drives I have owned in last 6 years have failed (2Tb External, forget the 1st, this 8Tb)... and I own 4 "working today" 8Tb drives... I am getting worried!
Sounds like they're as good as dead then tbh. I'll take them off your hands for a fiver each?