The company Seagate Technology announced the availability of the world's first hard drive capacity of 8 TB. In addition to the large volume manufacturer also notes the high energy efficiency and the availability of storage.
Wheels giants will focus on domestic and server environment, and the company claims that the new drives will record levels of cost of ownership in terms of gigabytes. At the request of Seagate, based on the new HDD you can create cloud storage and work with large volumes of data.
Unfortunately, the official press release Seagate stingy on any kind of characteristics of new products. Of it only follows that the 8-terabyte hard drives are made in the form factor of 3.5 inches. In addition, they use an interface SATA 6 Gb / s. We can also assume that the number of plates in the HDD to eight pieces.
Seagate has positioned itself as a development solution not only for home or office use, but also as an inexpensive and effective option for data centers.
So far, the company delivers a new hard drives to its partners. When the development will be available to the mass market and the cost of storage is not specified.