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[ggrobot]

Seagate has demonstrated the first terabit-per-square-inch hard drive, almost doubling the areal density found in modern hard drives. Initially this will result in 6TB 3.5-inch desktop drives and 2TB 2.5-inch laptop drives, but eventually Seagate is promising up to 60TB and 20TB respectively.

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[Csimbi]

We've been expecting the 4-6TB drives two years ago. Just check where we are now. Barely hit the low end of that promise.
20-60TB? That means 20TB two years from now. But, by then, things might be SSD only. So, unless these drives are available today, the news have no real value.

[Genoism]

we had 4tb hd's two years ago....they just weren't available to everyone. I work in the media business and we've been using them for a long time now.....more than 2 years ago actually.

[Csimbi]

Right. So the news has no real value for us, mortals.

[Sabot]

One thing is sure, it's going to be fun when that monster fails.

[Csimbi]

I guess hard disks like that are built into fault-tolerate arrays, so that should not be an issue. Rebuilding the array will take a long time though, so another drive might die in the process -> be sure to use RAID6.

[Ozieo]

<running like scared chicken> OOOohh Aaaaargh! The SSD's are drowning our bussiness, let's blow some bubbles or we're history ! <running like scared chicken>

[Kompressor]

[Kompressor]

[Csimbi]

@Kompressor
I think Ozieo meant that the HDD manufacturers woke up; if they want to stay in business, they need to offer something competitive or else the SSDs will take over. Four years ago the SSDs were so small that there was no reason to consider. Nowadays you can buy 256G and 512G drives. Sure, they are still expensive but as the new generation of SSDs come out, the price of these will drop so these will become direct competitors to traditional HDDs.

Yes, there are a good deal of bad SSD drives out there. Good SSDs come with algorithms to mitigate wear - extending the lifetime significantly. So, pay attention and make sure you buy the good ones.
I have two 40Gs from Kingston - these are over three years old. No signs of degradation so far.

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[Ozieo]

Well, sure those multi-TB HDD's are great, i'm using these too as partitions to store big chuncks of data, like all my copies of the DVD's i bought and so
In this (clever) case, I have not the slightest idea how the heck i would fill my 120GB primary (working) partition, when i store big data in a seperate one.

If you do lots of simultanous work, like browsing, in the meantime fiddling with Excel, and perhaps photoshoping your self image, you'll be stumped how much faster an SSD is, particularly in those "average usage" situations.

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[Ozieo]

OK

[Baconnaise]

I picked up a 128g SSD after rebate for 110 or 120 a couple years ago. The new ones I have are two 60g striped sata3 which are supposedly faster and support the fastest sata. There's a noticeable difference between ssd and the standard drives. Budget wise they're still overpriced unless you get on a rebate or sale of some sort. Regular drives haven't been fairly priced for quite a awhile as well. Prices of regular drives have stayed inflated and have opened up the option of upgrading drives to SSD depending on the situation.

Memory is dirt cheap if you're semi current. DDR3 is cheap to the point that 8-16g of ram is 30-60 bucks unless you get picky. This seems about right considering that the current gen supports up to 32g+ ram in many cases.

I don't see 6tb let alone 60tb coming anytime soon as the current economic climate and pricing of drives just won't support them. Things need to settle more before I get optimistic.