I can understand the usefulness of having that much storage capacity, but in all honesty if the industry keeps making larger and larger drive it will give incentives to companies to just make larger and larger programs... Is it just me or does anyone else think storage capacity shouldn't be this large, at least at the consumer level.
Link to Seagate drive: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/186624-seagate-starts-shipping-8tb-hard-drives-with-10tb-and-hamr-on-the-horizon
I don't even trust a drive that large...the 4 TB drives fail enough as it is. I think that SSDs will be reaching that capacity in a few years anyway...
Now, if only our Internet connection would compensate...
The drives are much better than they were in past, they last longer with no issues. Yea in next 3-4years maybe 4-6TB ssd within reasonable price. Unless liquid drive catches on.
Honestly I don't care about the 8tb drive as I'm more pissed that this will give rise to more bloated software. I would be terrified if 8tb became the standard.
Thats what they said when we jumped from 3.2GB to 10-40GB overnight.
on ncix they had a vid talking about 1,000tb dives so that will be next
Didn't Seagate mention in the past that they were expecting to hit the 16tb mark within the next few years? 8tb doesn't really surprise me to be honest. Hopefully the failure rate issue of these huge capacity drives is all sorted out though.
But 1,000 TB drives? That's just fucking SCARY.
You have to have somewhere to store Ron Jeremy's porn collection.
my 4cents
1. until i see real solid scientific results on 4TB+ drive failing significantly more than current smaller drives I'm not going to care at all. mechanical drives these days are really reliable for the average user.
2. higher capacities are always better. Why complain honestly? If you don't want to settle for less (try going back to a 64MB flash drives) why not settle for more? Technology is advancing- DEAL WITH IT
3. While this may not be fore me, keeping in mind I'll have a 6TB raid array very soon for games and pictures (raw files are huge) I can really see the appeal for server and storage enviorments where you DO need the space of serveral TeraBytes on a disc- also the fact that this is the same formfactor mean that you can have more space in less space.
4. and yes, I can now download pornhub (provided my connection holds up.)
The only current gen use for larger drives is
4k or greater res videos. Example. High res videos and video storage from
Security footage
My current rig has a 3th just for video content storage.
Currently do video editing for a few friend and maybe my channel again
Ewww... Seagate!
3th
I've personally never had any problems with Seagate's hard drives. I'm running a 1tb Barracuda in my system and it's doing just fine. I don't know where all this hate for Seagate comes from. Do they actually have a significantly higher failure rate on their drives when compared to WD or something? Or is their customer service just bad?
I see high fail rates of seagate drives. Been building computers for years and I would say on average there is twice as much chance a barracuda drive will fail compared to a WD Black so I dont buy Seagate anymore.
Running 4 1 tb drives and 4 2tb drives in my computer I am all for larger drives. Could always do with more drive space, always filling up. Bloated is software that does its functions at the least effcient method. WatchDogs was bloated, the textures and audio was uncompressed and didnt loo good for the size they were but dont be fooled by high detail compressed media that will take up a larger size but provide detail that is superior for what we have. I say im all for 8tb and 16tb drives in the next few years.
I have at least one Barracuda, but not in my main rig. I don't expect much from any HDD brand, I trust Seagate least of all. Seagate/Maxtor used to be desirable.