Seagate Vows to Introduce 6TB Hard Drive in April.

Xbitlabs ^ | [01/27/2014 04:39 AM] by Anton Shilov | by Anton Shilov

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seagate Technology said at a conference call with investors and financial analysts that it would release a hard disk drive with 6TB capacity in the beginning of the second quarter, 2014. The company did not reveal a lot of details about the upcoming product, but noted that this would be an enterprise-class hard drive.

“We are continuing to expand our offering of high capacity drives with our six-disk, 6TB drive shipping early next quarter,” said Steve Luczo, chairman and chief executive of Seagate.

At present 6TB hard disk drives in 3.5” form-factor are available exclusively from Western Digital Corp.’s HGST. Those drives are based on the HelioSealed platform and are filled with helium, which allows to install up to seven platters into an industry-standard package.

[Moonman62]

I can remember getting a 300 MB drive for $300. And the first time I saw the speed of the dir command on a 386 I couldn’t believe it.

[Rebelbase]

A guy in the next office over got an IBM XT with a 20mg hard drive back in the day and the rest of us were cruising along using dual floppies.

I couldn’t understand why he’d want storage space that would take 10 years to fill up at the normal work load.

[dfwgator]

I would also use Dropbox as another backup, in case a fire destroys all of your hard drives.

[Labyrinthos]

Agreed, except I wouldn’t use DropBox or any cloud based storage for any data or files that I don’t want in the public domain or reviewed by the NSA.

[mykroar]

I remember upgrading to a TRS-80 CoCo back in the day. And then I moved onto the ultra-powerful 8086.

[556x45]

LOL, but will it work?

[ez]

My first PC had a 20 meg HD. Now that would hold four mp3’s, lol.

[SgtHooper]

I recall a PDP 11/34 disk was about 24 inches in diameter and 5 megs.

[RandallFlagg]

I just popped in my fourth HD.

I now have 9.5TB of storage.

(I have a LOT of videogames)

[zeugma]

I remember thinking, “how the hell am I ever going to use 20 megabytes?”

[montag813]

I LUSTED after that Radio Shack HD.

[RansomOttawa]

I bought my first hard drive in 1991. It was 80 MB. I paid extra to upgrade from the then-standard 40 MB.

I didn’t fill that drive up until 1995.

Today, it wouldn’t hold an album’s worth of MP3s.

[minnesota_bound]

All I need are floppy disks.

[Gene Eric]

Looks like a disk brake with two calipers.

[GeronL]

lol.

I remember I had to delete a game to play another game, it really stunk. I did like that I could play Spectrum Holobyte’s “Tank” off the disc though

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

lol!

[KevinB]

I remember sitting at my desk at home in 1986 after just unpacking and setting up my new computer. It was a DOS-based XT clone with 2 5-1/4 inch floppy drives, a 20 meg hard drive and an Epson LQ1500 dot-matrix printer attached. I had the most powerful system of anybody I knew and distinctly remember sitting there self-satisfied and confident in the knowledge that I would never need to buy another piece of computer equipment in my lifetime.

[VeniVidiVici]

My first hard drive was 40 meg. If you swapped the MFM controller out for RLL you could sometimes get about 60 meg out of it.

Me too. I believe it was a Mitsubishi.

[Svartalfiar]

I have 3 terabytes spinning in the basement as a personal cloud server and probably twice that in backups and less essential stuff stuck in the fire safe.

Yea, that's about what I have. Old laptop had 320G, so I bought a 750G external. when that filled up I bought a 3T for ~$130 a couple years ago (awesome deal!). And it's about half full now. :) SSDs are simply too expensive to be worth purchasing, especially when you're on a limited budget.

[Revolting cat!]

Which reminds me, when I was six I was diagnosed with TB.

But seriously folks, 6TB just in time when Microsoft is about to erect its new CEO who’ll get right to work filling that space up with bloatware!