HD capacity to double by 2016

[Bozo]

60TB hard drives?!

 

[LunarMist]

If the unrecoverable error rates are not improved, every disk will have some bad data.

 

[ddrueding]

Build some kind of redundancy into the platters? With that kind of density STR would be awesome.

 

[CougTek]

Higher STR will only make Santilli happy when he'll run benchmarks to entertain himself. Otherwise, it will have very little impact on the perceived speed of the drive from a user experience.

 

[LunarMist]

Higher STR will only make Santilli happy when he'll run benchmarks to entertain himself.

:rofl:

Of course compared to the total capacity the STR will be even slower than on current drives. It will take practically forever to completely write or test a drive.

 

[Mercutio]

Two words: 4k Porn.

 

[timwhit]

Higher STR will only make Santilli happy when he'll run benchmarks to entertain himself. Otherwise, it will have very little impact on the perceived speed of the drive from a user experience.

I move large files between disks quite a bit, so higher STR would help me. I'll also need to upgrade to a 10gbps network.

 

[timwhit]

The math in that article doesn't make any sense. If the highest density is around 625gb/inch^2 right now and it's expected to increase to 1800 that is a 2.88x increase. If you can get 5TB with 5 platters and 625 you should be able to get 14.4TB with 1800. Where they get 60TB from is beyond me.

 

[Mercutio]

I move large files between disks quite a bit, so higher STR would help me. I'll also need to upgrade to a 10gbps network.

NICs aren't that bad if you just want to run a crossover between two machines. I've seen 10GbE PCI-e cards go for $75 on ebay.

 

[LunarMist]

The math in that article doesn't make any sense. If the highest density is around 625gb/inch^2 right now and it's expected to increase to 1800 that is a 2.88x increase. If you can get 5TB with 5 platters and 625 you should be able to get 14.4TB with 1800. Where they get 60TB from is beyond me.

Several different numbers are being bandied about, including the theoretical. I doubt there will be 60TB drives in my lifetime. A few years ago SSDs were all the rage with claims they would be replacing hard drives even in the high capacities.

 

[CityK]

The math in that article doesn't make any sense. If the highest density is around 625gb/inch^2 right now and it's expected to increase to 1800 that is a 2.88x increase. If you can get 5TB with 5 platters and 625 you should be able to get 14.4TB with 1800. Where they get 60TB from is beyond me.

See the bottom paragraphs:

HAMR technology is likely to lead the way in creating next-generation HDDs, even though satisfactory costs via HAMR comparable to those of PMR have yet to be seen. In theory, however, advanced technologies like HAMR could extend HDD areal density to a range spanning 5Tb/inch[SUP]2[/SUP] to 10Tb/inch[SUP]2[/SUP].
The highest capacity for 3.5" HDDs could then reach 30TB to 60TB

 

[timwhit]

See the bottom paragraphs:

I didn't make it that far. I assumed the headline had some relation to the article other than the last paragraph.

 

[timwhit]

NICs aren't that bad if you just want to run a crossover between two machines. I've seen 10GbE PCI-e cards go for $75 on ebay.

That would be ideal, but my computers are close to 100ft apart and my wife doesn't like wires running down the hallway.

 

[Mercutio]

Your wife does not like strippers or high speed networks. Why the hell did you marry her?

 

[Howell]

That would be ideal, but my computers are close to 100ft apart and my wife doesn't like wires running down the hallway.

So you're looking forward to 10G wireless then?

 

[timwhit]

So you're looking forward to 10G wireless then?

I will just buy a new switch and new NICs. There are 2 Cat 6e cables that I embedded in the walls. I hope cat 6e will support 10gbps.

 

[Chewy509]

So you're looking forward to 10G wireless then?

If it's any good as current WiFi, then no...

 

[sechs]

How slow will these platters have to spin in order to get a reasonable error-free read rate?

I imagine that even pokey high-density drives will continue to have a place in data centers, where there is redundancy and back-up.

 

[LunarMist]

Somehow I expect the basic specs to remain the same. They have not changed much in a decade or more.

 

[CityK]

Somehow I expect the basic specs to remain the same. They have not changed much in a decade or more.

I expect that they will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.

 

[fb]

Perhaps we'll be using DNA as storage in the future?

http://www.livescience.com/26511-shakespeare-stored-in-dna-files.html

 

[LunarMist]

Not so great for random access time.