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I like these!

Nice find. Seagate still not using Helium even for these drives.

John
 
Seagate's CEO, Steve Luczo, actually announced the development and 2014 availability of both 8 and 10TB drives back on May 1, 2014.

Who knows when Kaleidescape will get around to upgrading their harddrive offerings? It could be any year now!

In the interim, I'll continue to delay downloading from the K Store until I have the capability to upgrade the 3U server with the larger capacity drives now coming to market.
 
Wish I could get even a 2TB for my older 5U. Maxed at 1TB, it would seem. These larger drives are certainly something to look forward to. Imagine if someone had told you even two years ago that a 1U server might eventually have 24 or even 30TB of net storage space? That's amazing.
 
Either way, it usually feels like the bailout scene from South Park.

*inserts blank drive*
*looks at web GUI to verify the drive took & space is available*
...and it's gone.

(I should almost feel glad to be slot-constrained, as it keeps the bleeding to a more manageable pace.)
 
Well, if you have a 1U, you already have more theoretical max capacity than my entire 5U, so please forgive my world's smallest violin concerto. :D
 
Not at all, it's the perfect soundtrack to my epic scene of despair each time I get close to having everything imported, only to come up a few discs short (until eventually repeating the process.)
 
I finally decided this morning that it is a fool's errand to upgrade all the discs one-by-one in my server to 1TB. I would be better off financially just getting a 1U with four 4TB drives and migrating the data over to it. Maybe by the time I am ready to do this, there will be 6TB or 8TB drives available. That would be sweet! Another reason to procrastinate? I'm in.
 
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