Seagate First to Announce 1TB Hard Drive Platters

[onethreehill]

Seagate Breaks Areal Density Barrier: Unveils The World's First Hard Drive Featuring 1 Terabyte Per Platter

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - May 3, 2011 - Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the leader in hard drives and storage solutions, today unveiled the world’s first 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter, breaking the 1TB areal density barrier to help meet explosive worldwide demand for digital content storage in both the home and the office.

Seagate’s GoFlex® Desk products are the first to feature the new hard drive, delivering storage capacities of up to 3TB and an areal density of 625 Gigabits per square inch, the industry’s highest. Seagate is on track to ship its flagship 3.5-inch Barracuda desktop hard drive with 3TBs of storage on 3 disk platters – enough capacity to store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or virtually countless hours of digital music – to the distribution channel in mid-2011. The drive will also be available in capacities of 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB......

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...001a48090aRCRD

[DeltZ]

wow, could be a pretty sweet storage drive. Pretty nice step up from current densities. Hopefully a decent generation of Seagate with decent performance and reliability. Else wait for Samsung's 1TB platters

[XRL8]

Uhm.Seagate just bought hdd division of samsung which announced 1TB platter technology about month ago so ...

[SkItZo]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/08/s...enthusiasts-r/
Gee, i wonder where they have suddenly gotten this technology from considering they just purchased Samsung

[[XC] Oj101]

DID they buy Samsung? According to everything I saw, it was nothing more than speculation.

[stangracin3]

no they didn't buy samsung, they bought the hard drive division of samsung...

[DeltZ]

hmm..i suppose samsung did say they were pulling out or something before. Totally forgot about that.

Up to western digital to compete then i guess...

[Johnny87au]

1gb platters, how long will these drives last

[eXa]

So... 5TB harddrives soon then?

[[XC] Oj101]

no they didn't buy samsung, they bought the hard drive division of samsung...

Naturally. However, the only news articles I ever saw were that Samsung wanted to ditch their HDD division for around $1bn and Seagate was a potential buyer.

[n!Cola]

Naturally. However, the only news articles I ever saw were that Samsung wanted to ditch their HDD division for around $1bn and Seagate was a potential buyer.

They sold it few days later when speculation started for $1.375 billion USD in the form of 50% stock and 50% cash

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...001a48090aRCRD

my f4 2tb samsung still strong, i just hope new 1tb platter will be as cheap but i doubt it.

[Biznatch]

Awesome, now we just need to wait for a company that doesn't make drives to start implementing this tech and we'll be set.

[sam3]

Awesome, now we just need to wait for a company that doesn't make drives to start implementing this tech and we'll be set.

Lol why do you guys hate seagate so much

I know they released some drives with dodgy firmware a few years ago but hasnt every company ed up at least once (wd greens for example).
Their drives seem to perform pretty well in benchmarks and seem competitively priced.
Ive been using seagate drives for the past 7 years and never had one break on me. And yes I even had one with dodgy firmware but I flashed it with their new updated firmware and its been running fine ever since.

[highoctane]

Lol why do you guys hate seagate so much

Give people something to complain and nit pick about and they'll run with it forever.

I've got a couple of those seagate 500gb drives that where prone to bricking due to the firmware issue, flashed to the updated firmware and still now right at three & half years later they are still going in a raid array and are running near 24/7.

On the other hand I've rma'd around 5 raptors in about 5 years, go figure, good thing I only use them for OS.

I also have a 4tb raid 5 array with wd greens & 2tb raid 5 array with wd blues both over 3 years old that have been trouble free.

Also recently had a couple seagate server drives fade out they where 10 years old and mechanically the drives operate but they became prone to bad sectors, after 10 years of 24/7 operation.

Anyways here's looking forward to building some new monster arrays!

Progress is progress, doesn't matter what the brand name is.

[turbox997]

lol, yeah we'll see how it goes, there's only two major HDD players standing Western Digital(bought out Hitachi's division) vs Seagate(bought out Samsung's division).

[The_Beast]

Meh, buy samsung and claim the tech as your own

[gumballguy]

Yeah I figured it was samsung's tech

Posted this earlier..

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=267818

It is duly noted that they only talk about using it in drives of 3tb or LESS. Yawn. We'll have to wait for seagate to do something USEFUL with this tech.

[[XC] Oj101]

I think GPT partitions but people off at the moment, not enough people are using EFI to make it worthwhile

[zanzabar]

I think GPT partitions but people off at the moment, not enough people are using EFI to make it worthwhile

im not sure why u would want to boot to a 3TB drive, and you could make a raid partition thats under 3TB and it will work fine since the virtual device created will be formatted in MBR.


also im just waiting for the 1st new batch of seagate controlled drives to ship and samsung's former fab to loose all of its love that took so long to get.

[WangChung]

Any idea when these are going to come out? Would be nice to get a 3 platter 3TB drive.... I'm waiting to upgrade my server because of this!

[M.Beier]

Samsung HDD WAS sold to Seagate;
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...73I1CG20110419

Summed up;
Seagate has 40% marketshare, WDC+Hitachi 50% and Toshiba 10%

What I am wondering is if the Samsung HDD brand will live on, or they will rebadge them to Seagate..

[Serra]

Any idea when these are going to come out? Would be nice to get a 3 platter 3TB drive.... I'm waiting to upgrade my server because of this!

I believe 1TB/platter drives are already being used in their external drives, though I'm guessing those aren't from the top quality series. But if someone really wanted one you could rip into an external enclosure and pull them out.

Internal drives will probably take a bit longer to come up while they clear out inventory of their old stuff and build up a stockpile of the new... I'm thinking Q3. Complete speculation, but 8-12 weeks may be too tight to get it done before then.

[Vinas]

WD's fail as often as Seagate. Think not? Then you've not been using them long enough I think

I have a 160GB cuda that has been running for around 7 years now... Not bad! I have some WD's that only lasted 8 months, but others that are running for over 3 years.

Enterprise wise, I have 32 1.5TB seagate barracudas are lasting in a 24x7 SAN (for disk to disk backups) for over a year! Can't say the same about the deskstar based SAN lol. So it's a mixed bag. Sometimes they fail, sometimes they last, just replace them from your backup. :-)

[rintamarotta]

Cant vouch for seagate, all their drives have broken on me within 6months of buying them.

Western Digital drives have never let me down, got 48 of them in my iSCSI SAN storage at basement and additional 14 in external case for storage next to my main pc, not single one have broken yet.