Table Salt Could Allow for 18 Terabyte Hard Drives

[clonazepam]

[citation][nom]noblerabbit[/nom]wait till you see my digital pepper[/citation]

lol... and are these things iodized or not?

 

[Guest]

How many TB's would you like on those fries sir?

 

[clonazepam]

If you leave it outside, will it attract deer?

 

[Darkk]

Interesting article. I'd take it as grain of salt.

Amazing that expression pointed them in the right direction.

 

[memadmax]

I wonder what this will do for transfer capacity.

 

[back_by_demand]

Sure 18Tb drives sound impressive, but by the time it arrives we should be ushering in the next resolution above 4K2K or even holographic video, I wouldn't be surprised if TV episodes are 20Gb each.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]thearm[/nom]I can't wait until 2021 when these drives are available![/citation]

Nah, 6 years from now max.

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]I just want cheaper SSD's.........[/citation]
And more reliable, bigger ones...

 

[tanjo]

Salted hard drives will appear when 90+% of consumers use SSDs.

 

[eddieroolz]

Probably won't take 10 years, because if it did platter-HDDs won't be competitive any longer.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Hmm, better not leave one of these babies laying around. The dog might eat it.

I wonder what would happen if they tried using pepper? I'm kidding.

 

[crypt0nym]

Will they offer a low salt version of the drive?

 

[jimkiler]

I would like to see the transfer rates on those 6TB platters, they have to give modern day SSD's a run for their money.

 

[Guest]

Well seeing as how they are now gouging prices on existing stocks of the current HDDs due ti Thai flooding. Hmm, they are also gouging Samsung, which isn't made in Thailand. LOL I wonder what NewEgg will gouge out of these in 2016? LOL

 

[Guest]

This whole theory wouldn't be for super-speed, SSD replacements, it would be for high-density data storage. Yes, SSD's are great in some places, but for enormous amounts of data that isn't accessed very often, there is no point, and they're not going to compete with mechanical HD's as far as price goes for quite some time.

Why don't we argue about Cars vs. Semi's next? It's just not the same thing.

 

[jbo5112]

It needs a cheesey video https://www1.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

1.9Tbit/in^2 makes for about 3TB platters, which will have to get here in a couple of years to be much of a breakthrough, especially if we're limited to 3 platters!

 

[Guest]

Grains of salt! Pass the salt! I can't believe iSalted you!

On a less energetic note, has anyone found other similar profoundly simple solutions for technology?