By Desire Athow
The first 10TB hard disk drives were launched nearly a year ago now but their prices are still far too high to even remotely consider using them in a non-enterprise setup. At around £510 (about $720, or AU$940) the per TB price of the Seagate ST10000NM0016 is about 13 times that of a 4TB model.
So if you want to look for a more affordable solution that offers acres of storage, then 8TB drives have to be the sweet spot, especially if you are wanting an external model. Seagate’s Innov8 (not to be confused with Samsung’s Innov8 smartphone) is certainly as big as some of its siblings, like the Backup Plus, and is far more expensive than they are.
The latter costs less than £200 (about $280, or AU$370) while the Innov8 carries a suggested retail price of £320 (about $450, or AU$590) and will be available shortly from Amazon and other online vendors.
Seagate opted for a minimalist, all-metal finish similar to the one introduced by the Seven, its ultrathin external hard drive. That’s no great surprise as both devices were designed by the same award winning San Francisco-based studio, Huge-Design.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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