Seagate unveils 10TB hard drive

The report claims that it delivers the lowest power/TB ratio and weight specifications for a 10TB Hard Disk Drive.

Seagate said last year that it had experimented with helium-filled hard disk drives for about 12 years. Since it is filled with helium, such hard drives will not only have increased storage, but increased reliability as well, and reduced power consumption also plays a huge role in reducing the overheads for these datacenters. That means they can be thinner, leading to space inside the enclosure for an extra platter.

According to Seagate, the new Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD incorporates a total of seven platters and 14 heads with the use of helium.

If you don’t need or want an 8TB NAS drive, don’t worry; Seagate is also producing 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6TB capacities. That’s the largest NAS drive capacity to date, built for NAS enclosures of up to eight bays.

Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage solutions, today launched its first 10TB enterprise capacity hard disk drive (HDD), merging high capacity with the industry’s lowest power and weight available in a 10TB drive, to meet the growing storage requirements for private and public cloud-based data centers. Seagate also says it has a PowerBalance feature to help optimise the IOPS/Watt rating for more efficiency. To be in keeping with the existing Enterprise Capacity drive products the spin speed would be 7,200rpm and there would be a 256GB cache. The 8TB drive will sell for $385 and will ship later this quarter.

Seagate joins HGST in using helium in its drives, which have been around for several years.

The new Seagate NAS HDD 8TB is, as its name suggests, an 8TB drive designed for NAS, RAID and server storage. It offers 180TB/year Workload Rate Limit (WRL) and provides MTBF of 1 million hour. The Enterprise Capacity line is backed with a five-year warranty. Pick up a pdf datasheet here.

Seagate itself predicted recently that in 2016 its 8 TB hard drives would be its most popular high-capacity models. The enterprise drive is a 10TB 3.5-inch device and is the firm’s first product to use Helium technology.

Western Digital, archrival of the Cupertino, Calif.-based Seagate, started shipping its own 10-terabyte hard drive in December.