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Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Innerworld@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/seagate-mozaic-4-plus-44tb-hamr-hard-drives/

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did this article really need ai thumbnail when actual pics exist & are freely available?

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The prick writing it seems quite pro-slop so I guess in his eyes, it does.

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Also the HDD itself is going deep into the mines of slop, so in a way it’s appropriate, still gross tho.

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only AI companies is going to see the things, the way things are going.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They probably have no one who can photoshop „44TB“ on a Hard Drive and don‘t think it‘s worth hiring someone on Fiverr to do it. Media designers, being the creatives that they are were always undervalued and among the first to lose their jobs to AI.

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, yes obv, my point was if it was really needed for that.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How else are they going to get a pic of a square HDD?

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  • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.

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    • bonenode@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lijely they are anyway already all “bought” with non-existing money by the usual suspect…

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      • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I got some inches to sell you.

        Inches of what?

        Just inches, bro. All the inches you could ever want.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The dates are “now”

      The price is irrelevant, because they aren’t for you or regular consumers. They’re already reserved and being shipped to AI data centers.

      It would have been nice to know what the read\write speed was.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The price is irrelevant, because they aren’t for you or regular consumers. They’re already reserved and being shipped to AI data centers.

        I mean this is the standard operating procedure for all top end data center products, they aren’t sold on consumer marketplaces but can be purchased by suppliers with existing contracts and relationships

        As they ramp up yields larger capacity drives will slowly trickle into more consumer channels until eventually the 40+TB drives are like the 8-12tb drives are today

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  • brap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have Seagate sorted their shit out? I have never had any other manufactures drives fail so often in the last 25 or so years. I have them a fresh chance about 10 years ago in a PS4 and guess what? It failed.

    This just sounds like 44Tb of fucking about restoring data to me.

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Germany there is a saying that goes like

      Seagate, oder Seagate nicht

      where “Seagate” sounds like “sie geht” (“she works”; the word “hard drive disk” is femininum in German).

      So it translates to “She works, or she does not work.” or “Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not work”

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      • brap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s brilliant, I love it.

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    • Exec@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stop buying consumer tier Barracudas. Their enterprise stuff is actually good.

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      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If they’re willing to sell unreliable trash to consumers, why should we trust them at all?

        Having had several of their drives fail and then received multiple, non-functional drives for a warranty replacement, I will not trust them again.

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      • brap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Good advice, but I’ve been burned so many times I’m just going elsewhere.

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    • modus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been running their IronWolf Pros for several years now. No issues.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown in my opinion. I too recall one or two periods where Seagate got bad pr for quality issues, but I’m not concerned that 10 years later any HDD I buy from them is going to croak as soon as it’s half full. There’s no way they would still be in business if that image is true. I think many times if there is a different in quality between brands it’s the difference between 99.999% and 99.998% - gasp! double the failure rate! - and then it evens out again.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      44TB HAMR and it’s gonna be thousands of dollars and sold out for achival use anyway.

      The big wave of failures was related to a tsunami years ago. Their enterprise stuff fails at about the same rate as WD last i check. Phoronix or someone cloud data host release numbers annually

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s getting difficult to care about hardware I’ll never actually see.

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now if only those 20tb HDDs came back down in price, some are sitting at twice to three times their original release price.

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  • this@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Great, more storage technology i’ll never be able to afford

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shit like this aint meant for you and me.

      Its meant for big data whores, like Palantir, and youtube, and CIA.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They can suck my dick and balls. None of this benefits the average consumer.

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    • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.

      It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

      My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.

      I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.

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    • yabai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This take is short-sighted. This same comment could be copy-pasted to 20 years ago when the first 1TB HDD was released. Of course it was stupid expensive. But now you would hardly glance at an HDD under 1TB. Technological progress is fast, and benefits consumers.

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    • Laser@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not their fault the average consumer doesn’t have a sizeable media library

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      • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Since piracy is argued to be fair-use, we should all have sizable media libraries.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t get the responses disagreeing with you. Citing as-yet undefined needs of an AVERAGE consumer while completely disregarding that the people on Lemmy are far more tech-focused and that the average tech level of a consumer is that they can’t even turn the computer off and on again. Almost nobody needs such massive storage, it’s a very niche need. The vast majority would never run out with 1TB. I’ve got 3TB and a huge collection of music, movies and photos I’ve backed up and there’s still room to go. The clowns disagreeing with you are running an -arr stack and thinking “I could fill that…”

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      • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        aimed at AI-scale data growth.

        This is an important part that the responses glossed over.

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        640kb ought to be enough for anyone, right?

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  • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Louis Rossmann says his business works on Seagate more than any other brand.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The last time I had a Seagate drive, it was 1.2GB

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    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right, I’m never going back to Seagate. Their drives are shit. Although I did have 2 IronWolf 10TBs setup in raid and they have been going nearly 8 years nonstop now.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t understand the hate against Seagate. I’ve only had Seagate in my PCs and none have failed for me in the span of almost two decades. In fact, the first ones I had are still around not having failed yet.

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      • Dumnorix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I really like my IronWolves. They never gave me issues so far.

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    • Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve only ever had one Seagate drive in my life and it failed in the first 3 months.

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    • user1234@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did it brick after a year of use?

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The consumer market will care. They’ll just be priced so far out of the market, it’ll be unrealistic of them to ever hope to buy one.

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  • bless@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aaaand it’s gone

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its not like the people will get it. Just useless slop companies.

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    God damn these comments are bleak.

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  • LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably like $4k each.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are there really articles for every completely expected tech advance like this?

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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