Toshiba Tests Super High Density 2.5Tb Tech

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]I hope they legalize piracy by 2013 because otherwise over 80% of most of everyone's hard drive will just remain empty. Kidding aside, I really don't see a reason to have hard drives this big on a personal computer. Servers, yes. How many full-length Blu-Ray movies could you fit in 10 TB, anyway?[/citation]

Increased track density will increase performance. Who cares if you are going to use the space. Upgrade to a 10TB drive and get something above 250MB/s sequential read/write speed on the outer edge of the platter.

 

[Cyex]

[citation][nom]ben55124[/nom]Family media storage seems to be growing exponentially with HD video.[/citation] Yeah I bought a full HD video camera in March this year and I already have 200gb of my toddler learning to walk, etc. And that's not even using it very much.

 

[victomofreality]

With data density like this I don't know if ssd's will ever topple the mechanical drives for mass storage... and really for storage I'm more about the price point then the speed.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]victomofreality[/nom]With data density like this I don't know if ssd's will ever topple the mechanical drives for mass storage... and really for storage I'm more about the price point then the speed.[/citation]
Just make sure you keep a fork on hand to eat those words.

 

[jadeite]

This technology is 2 generations forward for perhaps 10TB drives and beyond. Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives will be the near future and deliver drives below this capacity piont; more than 2TB of today and reaching towards 10TB or so at which time patterned media may carry the torch which has headroom to deliver up to 100TB drives.

It's deja vu all over to see some people think that todays drives are big enough. I remember when people said the same thing about the 10MB drives, the 200MB drives, and so on and so forth. Drives have gotten a million times larger in a very short time and some people still can't see past the tip of their nose. I can also remember when people said with the advent of the 1GB drives that that was too much data to lose LOL.

Forget the SSD marketing fluff and read the article. This is how your data will be stored in the future.

 

[Thor]

Hum,

Take than Toshiba :

http://j.imagehost.org/view/0042/Fast_Hard_Drive

 

[dEAne]

yeah this is what we need.

 

[_Pez_]

Would be Interesting seeing the total storage capacity in HDD's from that new way "bit-patterned media".

 

[_Pez_]

Would be Interesting seeing the total storage capacity in HDD's from that new way "bit-patterned media".

 

[FrozenGpu]

[citation][nom]Thor[/nom]Hum,Take than Toshiba :http://j.imagehost.org/view/0042/Fast_Hard_Drive[/citation]
Thor please translate this, I'm curious...

 

[danny69t]

[citation][nom]Thor[/nom]Hum,Take than Toshiba :http://j.imagehost.org/view/0042/Fast_Hard_Drive[/citation]
translation please!! i don;t think everyone around here speaks french. Thank YOU!!

 

[zaznet]

SSD Drives will start to push out platter HDDs in home systems in the coming years. Keeping the capacity advantage is crucial to continue to make money on the HDD market.

 

[abswindows7]

I hope Seagate won't use this technology, losing 10tb of data would involve many trouble for some...

 

[matt_b]

[citation][nom]oxxfatelostxxo[/nom]They arnt talking about a 2.5tb drive, they are talking about per in(2).[/citation]
This I knew from the article.....
My point being the way technology is, how impressive the same numbers sound come 2013 when we see the physical product. Things always sound impressive - until you find out how far off it is.

 

[Guest]

wrong question: how much blue-ray movie 10TB can store?
right question: how many Ultra 3D Blue-ray movie it can store?

so.. depends on what kinds of encoding we came out with, by then... maybe .. Windows 8 take up 100GB? interesting to compare the installed size of SC1 and SC2, as well as system requirement after 12 years.

 

[ererr10]

Who needs that much space anyways? Its not like anyone has 800 HD movies.