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Author:  trekkie [ October 1st, 2012, 3:20 pm ]
Post subject:  60TB harddrives coming soon
In theory, HAMR should allow for areal densities up to 10 terabits per square inch (magnetic bits just 1nm long!), and thus desktop hard drives in the 60TB range. Meanwhile, conventional perpendicular recording is expected to hit one terabit in the next few years, but the roadmap to greater densities isn’t very clear. There is no word on the cost of HAMR drives, or whether the addition of a laser will significantly impact power consumption or I/O performance.

The biggest winner from larger hard drives, of course, is cloud storage and computing — but then again, the other angle is that you’ll have so much local storage that the cloud seems a bit pointless, especially when we all have 100Mbps internet connections. But then again, with the unstoppable surge of smartphones and tablets and flash memory, do mechanical hard drives really have a future in consumer electronics?



http://www.extremetech.com/computing/12 ... -drives-on-their-way
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Author:  Duke Juker [ October 1st, 2012, 5:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 60TB harddrives coming soon
Too much info? :P
Author:  Evelyn [ October 2nd, 2012, 1:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 60TB harddrives coming soon
I'm pretty sure that a 7200rpm mechanical drive will be faster than trying to access the internet for everything. Not to mention LAG. Lag will always be a fact of the internet and will always be there to make you angry.
Author:  Pfkninenines [ October 2nd, 2012, 6:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 60TB harddrives coming soon
I almost don't want to know what the failure rate on a 60TB drive would be. That kind of density, any minute problem and you could lose huge amounts of data.

That being said, I can't wait for larger drives. Not only is having access to that kind of storage fantastic, it also means that the other drives *should* come down in price. I wouldn't mind having a few 3TB drives lying around for backup and general storage purposes.
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