20TB Hard Drives May Be Made of Glass

Bigdady92 said:
Flash memory is plummeting in price and increasing in density at a rapid rate. I hope by 2020 we can get 4TB at a recent return in SSD's.
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Plummeting?

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timberwolf said:
Is anyone still buying spindles?
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No way in hell I'd spend 500 bucks per 2TB SSD when you can get each 8TB HDD for ~200. I'd love to move all SSD, but for now data storage still goes on HDDs for me. SSDs for OS/APPs/Cache/etc.

I suppose if someone only had a few TB of storage then it could be worth it to ditch HDDs. But not cost effective with tons of storage.
 
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SSD prices were dropping quit a bit continuously for a while, seems the past couple of years they've been pretty stagnant.
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
I am special in my company as I have the only PC with a SSD and our network performance still makes this machine feel ultra slow....
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I'm lucky my company network gets 1Mbps on a hard linked line. They refuse to upgrade our wifi past 802.11G too.

That said, performance of SSD drives are actually decreasing.
 
timberwolf said:
Is anyone still buying spindles?
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Amazon Data Warehouse, Google, Facebook, Apple, video security companies... pretty much every company that deals with large quantities of data wants a LOT of big cheap spindle drives.

The drives discussed in this article aren't the drives your mom buys at Costco to backup her computer... Current gen 10 and 12TB drives (and the future 16+TB drives) are built specifically for these data warehousing companies who are installing them by the hundreds or thousands at a time.
 
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