Seagate is going to be pushing the envelope and will develop up-to 16 Terabye HDDS. They want to do so within the next year and a half. They also aim to release a bit higher, a 20TB HDD to be launched by 2020.

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Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

There are no HDD manufacturers whose disks avoided troubles. With that sizes these HDDs aimed for professional/enterprise niches, imo. And usually these niches receive big warranty periods and also are equipped with backup solutions.

Use RAID 10 and keep your fingers crossed that once you will have to rebuild it won't fail.. 🙂

tbh RAID isn't a replacement for backups but i get what you mean 🙂

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

No, which is why you don't just buy one, you buy several of them, which is good for Seagates business 😉

Too much porn is not healthy.

Too much porn is not healthy.

I suspect if porn will go to 3D then 16TB will not be enough.

Back in our time every new top HDD was replacing the old in a model row with same price tag. Since 3TB every new HDD cost more more and more. I guess Seagate and WD are intentionally killing HDD market off.

I 'member posting I wouldn't trust 4TB on a seagate drive and now I find myself in a similar thread for an enormous 14TB drive. Damn.

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

i was clearly Anti-Seagate but since we use them at work, i have changed my mind... exept the noise "Dzzziiiiii" (moment of stress for me 🙂 ) that they do sometime they are really reliable since years (and less expensive than WD... but WD is WD 🙂 )

:3eyes: HDD marked needs a dual motor (internal RAID) drive, not just for storage, if no for speed, clearly they can´t compete but if they offers capacity, speed and price, they could survive a bit more... :pc1:

Oculus porn (4096x2048 60fps) 7GB for 30 min.. need more space 😀

4k HDR.

HDR is just metadata (text)

Too much porn is not healthy.

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I wonder .Is this the sign that HAMR is already used ? If so, we can kiss goodbye our "ancient " recovery tecniques, and we'll evetually buy more HDDs from them just for backing up .

There are no HDD manufacturers whose disks avoided troubles. With that sizes these HDDs aimed for professional/enterprise niches, imo. And usually these niches receive big warranty periods and also are equipped with backup solutions.

No but people on these forums have hard on for ****ting on seagate.. in 25+ years I have been using 1 seagate only I only had drive out right fail. and by that mean it was unaccessible unbootable unrecognizable cant say same for WD/Quantum few other drive I tried. All drive at some point have bad sector. no mater the manufacture

Question is, can you trust Seagate with that much data on one drive?

I have really good experience with 4tb seagates (own 8, none one have failed yet, finger crossed). My favorite storage drive atm is WD Red 3tb, very quiet, runs cool, but i recently tried the an 8tb WD Red, and ran like 10C higher than my 3tb and it was noisy, enough to make me not use it. People should get out of the branding and favoritism, specially on helium drives, its a like a new beginning, personally im looking forward to Seagate Iron Wolf NAS 10tb, just waiting them to go down in price some, probably when the 12tb hit the market.

guys, maybe i am a bit paranoid or something, but there is always a trade off. The increase of the storage is done by using HAMR. Care to see what it really is about ? Here it is [spoiler]Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is a magnetic storage technology for hard drives in which a small laser is used to heat the part of the disk that is being written to. The heat reduces the coercivity of the material, hence allowing the head to write on materials with higher coercivity, which in turn allow for smaller grain size which is limited by the superparamagnetic effect hence increasing the maximum possible areal density. The net effect of HAMR is to allow writing on a much smaller scale than before, greatly increasing the amount of data that can be held on a standard disk platter. The technology was initially seen as extremely difficult to achieve, with doubts expressed about its feasibility. As of 2016, no hard disks using HAMR are currently on the market, but HAMR is in an advanced state of development with demonstration drives produced by companies such as Seagate. While TDK originally predicted that HAMR hard disks could be commercially released in 2015, the best estimate as of December 2015 is that they will arrive in 2018.[/spoiler] Not saying that it's bad, but bye-bye data recovery, as we know it.

I welcome higher capacity HDD's. I want to build a NAS but currently no HDD size would fit me because I simply have to much data. I would obviously make sure I have as much redundancy as possible though, having a 16 to 20TB fail... ouch. Plus for my home environment if a rebuild needs to happen, unlike in businesses, I can leave the NAS to do its thing for a week if need be.

I welcome higher capacity HDD's. I want to build a NAS but currently no HDD size would fit me because I simply have to much data. I would obviously make sure I have as much redundancy as possible though, having a 16 to 20TB fail... ouch. Plus for my home environment if a rebuild needs to happen, unlike in businesses, I can leave the NAS to do its thing for a week if need be.

Too much data? Im running a NAS with 12 x 10TB HDDs (Raid 10)... anything is possible! I love the idea of higher capacity HDDs but the price at the moment is just crazy, And the thought of having 16TB of data on a Seagate drive makes me cringe.