Seagate “Guardian” Series of 10TB Hard Drives Launched

[Patrick Kennedy]

The new Seagate Guardian series: IronWolf (NAS), SkyHawk (surveillance) and BarraCuda Pro (desktop) 10TB hard drives give us new capacities and insights into drive usage and endurance

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[keybored]

Are these all going to be $535 MSRP or just Barracudas? Any word on whether they're helium drives, # of platter, rotation speed?

Edit: looks like 7200rpm for the IronWolf drives : http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/files/ironwolf-ds-1904-1-1606us.pdf
These 10TB drives must be using some new tech. They're are 7200rpm drives but their power requirements are almost half of the 8TB version. Idle average 4.42W for 10TB vs 7.2W for 8TB.

Edit: Helium for 10TB: Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Helium HDD Capsule Review

 

[ZeDestructor]

Are these all going to be $535 MSRP or just Barracudas? Any word on whether they're helium drives, # of platter, rotation speed?

Edit: looks like 7200rpm for the IronWolf drives : http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/files/ironwolf-ds-1904-1-1606us.pdf
These 10TB drives must be using some new tech. They're are 7200rpm drives but their power requirements are almost half of the 8TB version. Idle average 4.42W for 10TB vs 7.2W for 8TB.

Edit: Helium for 10TB: Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Helium HDD Capsule Review

The chassis design suggests only all the 10TB variants are Helium-filled (not much point sealing an air-filled drive). Due to the reduction in drag on the platters and heads, the main motor power goes down since you need less torque to spin it up.

 

[KioskAdmin]

I love the DWPD chart @Patrick

 

[Patriot]

Wonder if these are SMR or not....

 

[keybored]

Wonder if these are SMR or not....

They can't be SMR. They're marketed as NAS, video surveillance, and high performance desktop drives. All uses have potentials, or even guarantees in the case of surveillance, for high amounts of sustained writes. SMR drives can't handle those.

 

[RobertFontaine]

The raid restore on a stack of these would be infinity long.

 

[Deslok]

I have to wonder why we're not seeing helium used in 2.5 inch drives to hit 6tb or higher, or potentially move the larger drives to 7200 or 10k rpm

 

[ZeDestructor]

I have to wonder why we're not seeing helium used in 2.5 inch drives to hit 6tb or higher, or potentially move the larger drives to 7200 or 10k rpm

Not much point because of the lower turbulence on smaller platters (smaller radius => lower linear speed => less turbulence)

 

[cesmith9999]

there are still a few advantages.

1) less power for 10K drives
2) more platters - however they probably only get 1 additional platter vs the 2 in 3.5" drives

the market for capacity 2.5" drives just started. we will see where this will pan out in the next few years. if the Samsung 4TB EVO gets cheaper. the market will split into 2 camps. SSD mainstream and 3.5" archive. hint, it is heading there already.

Chris