http://www.anandtech.com/show/9946/seagate-introduces-8-tb-hard-disk-drive-for-nas

 

Seems like a good choice, the Archive drive always worried me for some reason

Me too, at least for use as parity. That new PMR Seagate would make a nice parity disk and then I'd be happy to use the SMR Archive drives as data disks. And I can't believe WD will let it lie: an 8 TB Red must be coming soon.

"MSRP of the new 8TB PMR NAS HDD from Seagate will be $385 when it ships later this quarter".

 

I assume that is USD? Which means it will be well over $450 for us poor Canadians......

And not far short of £385 for us even poorer Brits. 

And not far short of £385 for us even poorer Brits. 

 

Too true.  Robbing bastards.

Still a Seagate!

Still a Seagate!

I've got 4 WD drives still left in the servers, and when they're gone I'll be throwing a party. 

When unraid 6.2 (release version) shows up I plan on swapping in 2 6TB Reds as parity. If these are available at the time I might consider it (depending on price) i'm sure these will probably be pretty expensive when they first release it though.

I wonder if the release of these will drive down the cost of the SMR 8TB drives even more!

 

I certainly hope so as I have been more than happy with them and have not seen any difference in speed between them and my 3TB PMR WD Red's!

This is amazing!  Will make a great parity disk and allow for SMR data disks.

I see that Span.com is claiming pre-availability, though there seems to be some disagreement with the AnandTech article about the spin speed (5900 vs 7200 RPM) and warranty period (2 vs 3 years), though I wasn't far out regarding the price - they're asking for £334.80, including VAT. I think Span is right about the speed (5900 RPM) and AnandTech is right about the warranty (3 years).

 

It looks as though there's a desktop model available too, the ST8000DM002 for £309.60. For comparison, their price for the already established shingled ST8000AS0002 is £211.20.