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Seagate ships first 8TB hard drive
Just a few months after rolling out its first 6TB hard drive, Seagate has kicked up the capacity by 33%. The firm announced this morning that it's now providing 8TB drives to "select customers." These drives are the "world's first" to hit that capacity milestone, according to marketing VP Scott Horn, and they won't be restricted to an exclusive audience for long. Broader availability is scheduled for next quarter.
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Jeebus chreebus. I remember when hard drives were measured in megs. If you wanted data, you had to walk uphill in the snow to get it.
And while 8TB is mind-boggling, I don't know that many "average users" who could use it. That's enough space for 1,704 full, uncompressed DVDs.
People used to think 1GB was a stupid amount of memory.