Seagate Technology Ships 8TB Hard Disk Drive - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Seagate Technology plc (STX) announced it is shipping the world's first 8TB hard disk drive. The 8TB hard disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry for cloud content, object storage and back-up disaster recovery storage, the company said.

The drive features multi-drive RV tolerance for consistent enterprise-class performance in high density environments. The drive also incorporates a SATA 6Gb/s interface for cost-effective, easy system integration in both private and public data centers. The company is shipping drives to select customers now with wide scale availability next quarter.