Seagate announces world’s first 8TB hard disk drive

The 8TB hard drive can deliver bulk data storage solutions for online content storage providing customers with the highest capacity density needed to address an ever increasing amount of unstructured data in an industry-standard 3.5-inch HDD. Providing up to 8TB in a single drive slot, the drive delivers maximum rack density, within an existing footprint, for the most efficient data center floor space usage possible, the release said.

John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president for hard disk drives, said the new HDD provides IT managers with a new option for improving storage density in the data center, thus helping them to tackle one of the largest and fastest growing data categories within enterprise storage economically.

The release added that its low operating power consumption, helps the drive reliably conserve energy and reduce overall operating costs. Seagate has already commenced shiping of the drives and wide scale availability is expected next quarter.