Seagate Announces three new 8TB enterprise drives

Seagate Technology plc unveiled its new portfolio of 8TB high capacity drives – the Seagate^®Enterprise Capacity3.5 HDD, Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD and Seagate Kinetic HDD. Said Scott Horn, vice president of marketing at Seagate, “In designing our products, we look closely at the type of data being stored, performance needs, power requirements, environmental operating conditions, network topologies, uptime demand and more, to ensure our customers receive the right storage technology for the job. This thoughtful approachhas enabled us to deliver the most compelling 8TB portfolio available in the industry.” Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD: The 8TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD delivers a 100 percent increase in random read/write performance compared to previous generations. “Supermicro’s wide array of SuperServer and SuperStorage solutions deliver unrivaled performance, efficiency, density and reliability for enterprise, data center, cloud and HPC environments,” said Don Clegg, vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. “With Seagate’s new portfolio of 8TB 3.5” Enterprise and Kinetic HDD we can cost-effectively address expanding web scale storage requirements with the most advanced Green Computing platforms on the market.” Enterprise NAS HDD: Seagate’s 8TB Enterprise NAS HDDprovides one third more storage density for any tower or rackmount solution compared to the previous 6TB generation drive. Kinetic HDD The 8TB Kinetic HDD focuses ontotal cost of ownership (TCO)by emphasizing scaled-out storage and rapid deployment in data centers. In cases where archiving data is a priority, emerging technologies such as Shingled Magnetic Recording can be of strategic and business value. Combined with the Kinetic Open Storage platform, this storage solution can change the TCO equation. All drives are currently sampling to select customers with wide scale availability planned for late this year.