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That 8TB Seagate MONSTER? It's HERE... (You'll have to squint, 'cos there are no specs)

Data gulping disk drive

Seagate is shipping an 8TB disk drive to selected OEM customers including object data-storing CleverSafe, with general availability next quarter. Tech details are sparse, however.

We know the data devouring beast fits in a standard 3.5-inch drive slot and has a 6Gbit/s SATA interface.

Seagate says it has “enterprise reliability and is for cloud content, object storage and back-up/disaster recovery storage".

It claims the drive has the best watts/GB rating for enterprise bulk data storage in the industry. The disk also has multi-drive RV tolerance so it can be crammed safely into enclosures.

We understand this could be an 8TB Kinetic drive, one with a direct Ethernet connection.

We don't know its spin speed, and are guessing 7,200rpm, or the number of platters. Having 4 x 2TB platters would be pretty revolutionary, but then so would 5 x 1.6TB platters. Why so coy, Seagate?

Cleversafe has no Slicestor products listed that use 8TB drives, the maximum being 4TB drives. Guess we can expect a doubling of capacity from, for example, the 2212’s 48TB to 96TB or the 2440’s 192TB to 384TB.

We’re scrambling to find out more from a coy Seagate and a still-sleeping Cleversafe and will update this story as soon as we know more. ®

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