Seagate’s New Hard Drive Offers 8 Terabytes of Data Storage for Just $260
Remember the days when having a 1 terabyte hard drive was exciting? Well, Seagate has announced a new 3.5-inch drive that can hold 8 terabytes of your data, and with an affordable price tag to boot. It’ll cost just $260, which means you’re paying about 3 pennies per gigabyte.
Compared to newer solid state drives and faster disk drives, however, the Seagate drives aren’t very fast with reading and writing data (150MB/s versus 1,800MB/s and 5,900RPM vs 7,200RPM, respectively). Thus, they’re designed more for data archival (to avoid storing “all our eggs in one basket,” you could buy multiple drives and use them in a RAID configuration).
You won’t be able to snag one in time for Christmas, though. Amazon only has a 20-pack of these drives for $5,000+. They’re expected to arrive on a store shelf near you starting in January 2015.
Seagate Archive HDD [Seagate via TechCrunch]