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

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

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.

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

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.

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"

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

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

It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown. I too recall 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 difference 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.

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

Shit like this aint meant for you and me.

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

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

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

Did it brick after a year of use?

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.

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.

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…”

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.