TDK Develops Tech to "More Than Double" HDD Capacity

[proton9]

8gb? this aint '90s

 

[danwat1234]

HAMR = Heat Assisted Magentic Recording. This is what the article is talking about.
I wonder if the industry will decide to use this, or if it will also use shingled magnetic recording and/or bit patterned magnetic recording?

 

[NirXY]

at this rate, Zeta Byte storage is due in 2045.
I wonder what will happen to my ZFS Array till then

 

[shin0bi272]

This was forcasted when hitachi announced perpendicular recording. But the difference is hitachi said that they could get 30gb on a 3 or 4 platter drive BEFORE switching to heat accelerated encoding. As it is 1 bit only takes up 8-10 ATOMS of space on the platter. This technique will enable them to cut that to 3-4.

 

[lamorpa]

"a special laser that heats up a platter's hard surface with a precision of a few dozen nanometers."

Um, what? Is temperature being measured as a distance? Or distance being measured as a temperature? Maybe the 'laser illuminates the surface with a precision of a few dozen grams'?

 

[mickey21]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I want to store a few thousand HD movies uncompressed in a RAID configuration with faster read/write speed than today's performance SSDs and at a reasonable price (say $500 total). Give me that in the next 3 years or so and I'll be happy.[/citation]
That is here now. Although I dont know why you would do them in an uncompressed format (well I do know due to quality but dont know how it would be practical), nor do I know where you would even source such a thing. Even on Blueray the movies are compressed. I suppose you could make your own movies and store them, okay.

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I want to store a few thousand HD movies uncompressed in a RAID configuration with faster read/write speed than today's performance SSDs and at a reasonable price (say $500 total). Give me that in the next 3 years or so and I'll be happy.[/citation]
There is no way you can do this. The cost of purchasing the movies will be a lot more than $500 by itself. Or are you planning on stealing the movies? (and then crying about the 'unfair' lawsuit by the owners of the copyrighted material)

 

[XZaapryca]

[citation][nom]cknobman[/nom]8GB!!!! Holy 2000 Batman!!!!!!![/citation]

Robin, don't you mean 1997? Excitement over 8TB drives > proofreading.

 

[halcyon]

8TB. Oh, I could back up a lot of data on 8TB.

 

[Thunderfox]

So how pointlessly big will Gmail's boxes be once Google's servers are filled with 8TB drives?

 

[jecastej]

Are you sure you want, say petabytes for personal use?

I am not Bill Gates so I wont argue against the need for more memory or storage and this is a good news I have no doubts but I prefer dedicated smaller drives for data that I will replace on safe periods of time one by one. An 8TB drive will be a good storage for movies, TV recordings, videos or entertainment in general. And with that capacity even for movies I would think on a RAID. In this respect technology is winning over my needs.

But I will never have all my data files in one drive and 8TB for desktop files even including my work files will risk the drive's life to be filled. I haven't created 2TB of data files yet in 10 years and that is a lot. 8TB will have to deal to much with reliability for personal files so I don't care if they'll come with a 10 year warranty. But this is from someone who painfully lost just 3 drives and had to recover file by file.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]jecastej[/nom]Are you sure you want, say petabytes for personal use?I am not Bill Gates so I wont argue against the need for more memory or storage and this is a good news I have no doubts but I prefer dedicated smaller drives for data that I will replace on safe periods of time one by one. An 8TB drive will be a good storage for movies, TV recordings, videos or entertainment in general. And with that capacity even for movies I would think on a RAID. In this respect technology is winning over my needs.But I will never have all my data files in one drive and 8TB for desktop files even including my work files will risk the drive's life to be filled. I haven't created 2TB of data files yet in 10 years and that is a lot. 8TB will have to deal to much with reliability for personal files so I don't care if they'll come with a 10 year warranty. But this is from someone who painfully lost just 3 drives and had to recover file by file.[/citation]

As long as you have at least 2 of these huge drives and have your data backed up it could be useful to folks that like to store movies. I can't really see what else an 8TB drive is useful for, on the desktop, besides backups and movies. That seems like a huge amount of space.

 

[jecastej]

[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]As long as you have at least 2 of these huge drives and have your data backed up it could be useful to folks that like to store movies. I can't really see what else an 8TB drive is useful for, on the desktop, besides backups and movies. That seems like a huge amount of space.[/citation]

Porn HD. And now possibly in 4XHD.

 

[eddieroolz]

Looks like platter drives are going to be around for much longer than one might think!

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Looks like platter drives are going to be around for much longer than one might think![/citation]

Mechanical drives aren't going anywhere. SSDs may never catch the capacity of mechanical drives.

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

Kevin "Thermaltake Case Has PSU On Bottom, Fans on Top" Parrish announces 8GB hard drives.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]Nim Chimpsky[/nom]Kevin "Thermaltake Case Has PSU On Bottom, Fans on Top" Parrish announces 8GB hard drives.[/citation]

Maybe Kevin is getting back at someone with these weird posts.

 

[dontknownotsure]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]"Welcome to technology where things move in logrithmic accelerating fassion."Since when?According to Wikipedia:2005 - First 500 GB hard drive shipping (Hitachi GST)2006 - First 750 GB hard drive (Seagate)2007 - First 1 terabyte hard drive[14] (Hitachi GST)2008 - First 1.5 terabyte hard drive[15] (Seagate)2009 - First 2.0 terabyte hard drive[16] (Western Digital)2010 - First 3.0 terabyte hard drive[17][18] (Seagate, Western Digital)2011 - First 4.0 terabyte hard drive[20] (Seagate)That is hardly 'logarithmic'.2005-2006 +50%2006-2007 +33%2007-2008 +50%2008-2009 +33%2009-2010 +50%2010-2011 +33%Pretty linear. Do it in two year batches instead:2005-2007 +100%2006-2008 +100%2007-2009 +100%2008-2010 +100%2009-2011 +100%Perfectly linear!So, given that:2013 8TB2015 16TB2017 32TB2019 64TB2021 128TB2023 250TB2025 500TB... etc, decades until something like zettabytes.Not to mention that at some point in the relatively near future, people are probably going to be ditching spinning drives for SSD for performance. At that point, lets say in six years, the capacity will dial back a bit, since SSDs are way behind spinning drives, adding a number of cycles.[/citation]

I thought thats a spam first time I saw it