News Seagate on track for 100TB HDDs by 2030 — claims current top drive will triple in capacity in 5 years

[Admin]

Seagate claims that it is on track to sell a 100 TB hard drive by 2030, representing a 3x increase over its largest currently available model.

Seagate on track for 100TB HDDs by 2030 — claims current top drive will triple in capacity in 5 years : Read more

 

[Stomx]

Yea, yea, 50, 100, 200TB, doubling, tripling... Noticed no one in HDD or SSD business ever promised so far that the warranty period will double or triple ? Or failures rate will 2x or 3x drop ?

 

[naryfa]

True, plus the fact that the throughput isn't going up by much. Unless perhaps, they put enough heads and needles to fully saturate the connection, or jump to NVMe plugs, Today, some EDSFF SSDs write at 10GB/s. From the fastest SATA HDDs we get ~286MB/s, ~524MB/s from SAS. Files are only getting bigger and bountiful. So I don't know, three sets of heads, different port type and lower failure rates maybe? The HDDs are workhorses, I'll give them that, but the speed and throughput are quite pressing.

 

[Paineful]

That's a lot of pr0n to lose when it crashes!

 

[George³]

Good Old 2017: "Dude where is my 100TB hard drive?"

2014 – 100TB drive by 2025 http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20150826/433240/?n_cid=nbptec_tecrs

 

[SomeoneElse23]

True, plus the fact that the throughput isn't going up by much. Unless perhaps, they put enough heads and needles to fully saturate the connection, or jump to NVMe plugs, Today, some EDSFF SSDs write at 10GB/s. From the fastest SATA HDDs we get ~286MB/s, ~524MB/s from SAS. Files are only getting bigger and bountiful. So I don't know, three sets of heads, different port type and lower failure rates maybe? The HDDs are workhorses, I'll give them that, but the speed and throughput are quite pressing.

Drives do tend to get faster with larger capacities. The 16TBs are atleast 2x faster than the 8TBs.

Hopefully it continues with the much much larger drives. There's still lots of room in the SATA spec for more speed.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Yea, yea, 50, 100, 200TB, doubling, tripling... Noticed no one in HDD or SSD business ever promised so far that the warranty period will double or triple ? Or failures rate will 2x or 3x drop ?

I only buy drives with 5 year warranties.

The warranty is how long the manufacturer expects the product to last.

Still, your point is valid. A 10 year warranty would be pretty cool. Not sure it's realistic with all that movement, heat, and vibration though.

 

[jp7189]

True, plus the fact that the throughput isn't going up by much. Unless perhaps, they put enough heads and needles to fully saturate the connection, or jump to NVMe plugs, Today, some EDSFF SSDs write at 10GB/s. From the fastest SATA HDDs we get ~286MB/s, ~524MB/s from SAS. Files are only getting bigger and bountiful. So I don't know, three sets of heads, different port type and lower failure rates maybe? The HDDs are workhorses, I'll give them that, but the speed and throughput are quite pressing.

SAS 12Gb/s is pretty common, and I don't think they'll saturate that anytime soon. There are some interesting hdd backplanes that use nvme to the host, and i thought i remember an announcement of a hdd that uses native nvme. Though I would expect that's more about easing integration than increase performance.