Seagate shipping 8tb drives

oxygene · 15 Dec 2014 at 08:59

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.

Doogles · 15 Dec 2014 at 09:00

oxygene said:
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.

They look good for my 1000 game library

oxygene · 15 Dec 2014 at 09:01

Doogles said:
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!

Terrier_Jimlad · 15 Dec 2014 at 10:16

oxygene said:
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 :eek:

oxygene · 15 Dec 2014 at 10:21

Terrier_Jimlad said:
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!

ED209 · 15 Dec 2014 at 10:27

i think COD AW requires about 52GB of space so its not a small game!

these drives are far too much than I would ever use.

oxygene · 15 Dec 2014 at 10:33

ED209 said:
i think COD AW requires about 52GB of space so its not a small game!

these drives are far too much than I would ever use.

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!

LordBarrass · 15 Dec 2014 at 14:53

These will not be available till the end of January. I hope to get pricing soon.

oxygene · 15 Dec 2014 at 15:05

LordBarrass said:
These will not be available till the end of January. I hope to get pricing soon.

<3
And I hope to have a small lottery win soon!

ReCoN1989 · 15 Dec 2014 at 20:07

What sort of read/write speed will we see with these? Is it significantly lower?

John24 · 16 Dec 2014 at 00:16

LordBarrass said:
These will not be available till the end of January. I hope to get pricing soon.

Thanks for the update. Did you get the samples in september? Do you know access time, platter count/densities? Apparently they are 5900RPM drives with 150MB/s Reads. Wonder how the shingled platter will impact the write speed.

darael · 16 Dec 2014 at 00:41

ReCoN1989 said:
What sort of read/write speed will we see with these? Is it significantly lower?

I'm not sure about read speeds, but I've read that write speeds could be slower.

Combat Fighter · 16 Dec 2014 at 18:30

8TB that's a whopper! lol

Fahim · 17 Dec 2014 at 20:46

I need 8 when it comes out

oxygene · 28 Dec 2014 at 20:25

Any news yet!

TheGentry · 28 Dec 2014 at 22:20

mmmmmm with that much space just been downloading everything and anything

IceShock · 28 Dec 2014 at 23:53

Sweet. Looking for a nice big backup drive!

I still wait for the day that 1 petabyte is the norm though, and also in SSD and HDD form,

The size of files and the rate that we download them now, I can easily fill a 1tb hdd in a few days if im not careful, Tis not gud!

John24 · 29 Dec 2014 at 03:06

oxygene said:
Any news yet!

Another etailer has them listed but no pre order or eta. Earlyer in this thread LordBarrass says end of January.

There's news of a 10TB drive being released next year that will use six 1.66TB platters, I hope these 8TB drives are using 5 platters or less and come in at under £200.

oxygene · 30 Dec 2014 at 09:30

John24 said:
Another etailer has them listed but no pre order or eta. Earlyer in this thread LordBarrass says end of January.

There's news of a 10TB drive being released next year that will use six 1.66TB platters, I hope these 8TB drives are using 5 platters or less and come in at under £200.

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!

s innes · 6 Jan 2015 at 05:06

nice timing looking to add some more storage as well might consider these if the price is reasonable