Seagate shipping 8tb drives

darael · 28 Jan 2015 at 10:30

Cache: 128GB

Is this right? :eek:

Redgie · 28 Jan 2015 at 13:45

Acme said:
Meh, I use desktop drives in my server. None of them have blown up yet. It has been 5 years.

Desktop or Archive?

Redgie · 28 Jan 2015 at 13:46

darael said:
Is this right?

No, should read 128MB according the Seagate spec sheet.

Akagi · 28 Jan 2015 at 14:04

Redgie said:
Desktop or Archive?

Just regular old desktop hard drives, there are some Barracuda's in there, a Spinpoint, and a couple of WD greens.

Some for file storage, some for auto backups.

At the time I didn't know the difference, and I bought whatever was cheapest. I would have upgraded to proper archive/enterprise drives if I felt that I needed them, but these have been fine *touch wood*.

I'm sure that the correct equipment would be best, but a hard drive won't just disintegrate if you don't use it for its intended purpose.

Redgie · 28 Jan 2015 at 14:09

Agreed. I use desktop drives in my server RAID

oxygene · 28 Jan 2015 at 14:12

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...

Combat squirrel · 28 Jan 2015 at 15:00

Niceeeeeeeeeee phat storage is always good! lol

As time goes on I will drop some in my unraid server, expand that storage!

ScoTTyBEEE · 28 Jan 2015 at 22:27

Acme said:
Meh, I use desktop drives in my server. None of them have blown up yet. It has been 5 years.

So do Google data centers.

hernaldo · 28 Jan 2015 at 23:59

nvm....that's life

jaybee · 2 Feb 2015 at 14:56

Google suggests these may only be £165. Is this true? When are they available?

Grrrrr · 3 Feb 2015 at 10:40

If you convert the USD price to GBP you come to about £170 but it'll never sell here at that price. For starters the US prices usually exclude VAT.

LordBarrass, above, said OcUK price will be about £250.

mw8t · 3 Feb 2015 at 10:56

Will take 2 but not at that price. Rip-off Britain.

Grrrrr · 3 Feb 2015 at 11:32

They're hardly a rip off??

It's a lower cost per gigabyte than the current WD Green 6TB drives and not that far off barracuda 3TB drives.

mw8t · 3 Feb 2015 at 12:28

Grrrrr said:
They're hardly a rip off??

It's a lower cost per gigabyte than the current WD Green 6TB drives and not that far off barracuda 3TB drives.

Compared to other countries, they are.

Semple · 3 Feb 2015 at 12:57

Will see if the £/gb drops for the 4Tb, and weigh up whether to buy another 4Tb or splash out for an 8Tb.

I'd assume these will run hotter than the 4 platter drives.

LordBarrass · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:23

Redgie said:
No, should read 128MB according the Seagate spec sheet.

Updated. Sorry was having to type it manually. no cut and paste from the PDF for some reason.

LordBarrass · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:25

It all depends on the Dollar rate when the products land. Also the prices listed in America are without sales tax and some states it can be 15% so the pricing you see in America is not always correct. But yes we normally get robbed.

kona786 · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:26

8TB seagate externals popping up at other retailers. Is the Internal gonna be much longer?

hernaldo · 6 Feb 2015 at 11:24

EDIT...

In short, why is OCUK charging so much for this Vs other European retailers?

DragonQ · 6 Feb 2015 at 13:11

Well it's being sold for ~£250 at some places. I wonder if spoffle feels silly about his comments on the first page now.

Not going near them at that price.