Seagate unveils a 10TB hard drive for your home PC

[Arthur]

Better buy a second drive to backup the first.

 

Source: Seagate (via Engadget)

 

It's no longer far-fetched to buy a 10TB hard drive if you're running a server, but what if you need gobs of space for your games and 4K videos at home? Seagate has your back after today, as it's releasing a trio of 10TB drives (mainly focused at networked and surveillance storage) that include one designed for your desktop. The new Barracuda Pro doesn't do anything remarkable beyond its capacity (it's a standard 3.5-inch, 7,200RPM disk), but that still means getting a massive amount of room in a drive that's meant for a run-of-the-mill PC. Just brace yourself for the cost. Seagate pegs the 10TB Barracuda Pro's price at $535 -- it'll be tempting to settle for 'just' an 8TB disk unless you know you need as much storage as possible in a single drive bay.

 

 

Edited July 19, 2016 by Arthur

[nicholab]

That means that you could get 120 to 240 TB of raw storage in 2u server. Just need a faster NAS.

[localzuk]

Just a shame its Seagate! Still won't touch their products after having so many Seagate drives die on us. WD all the way for us now (well, if we buy a disk that is. Mostly SSD now!)

[bwestlake]

Just a shame its Seagate! Still won't touch their products after having so many Seagate drives die on us. WD all the way for us now (well, if we buy a disk that is. Mostly SSD now!)

 

 

I 100% agree... Had loads of problems with seagate! WD all the way!!!!

[Arthur]

That means that you could get 120 to 240 TB of raw storage in 2u server.

Only 109-218 TiB though.

 

WD all the way for us now

I have had both WD and Seagate drives fail so I try to take a more pragmatic approach and assume they will all fail at some point and plan accordingly.

[2ilent8cho]

Could be handy, i have 24TB of storage in my home server and would like an extra backup. But i find the Seagate drives fail well before the WD ones.

[mavhc]

For a little bit more you can buy HTSG helium drives https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=hde7s&sort=r&xf=958_10000#xf_top

[MatthewL]

That's one hell of an amount of data to loose if it fails plus I'd never buy Seagate after my drive failed years ago and I lost a pile of data.

[Arthur]

That's one hell of an amount of data to loose if it fails

Isn't that why we have backups?

 

If your important data only kept on a single drive, the size is irrelevant because when it fails you have lost it all anyway.