TDK to Offer 40TB Hard Drives by 2020

let's stay at 4 TB for a year or two and make them more reliable. the rate of failure of hard drives nowadays is a joke, especially the wd green ones. wtf would i store on 40 tb? at least the nsa will have cheap storage.
 
let's stay at 4 TB for a year or two and make them more reliable. the rate of failure of hard drives nowadays is a joke, especially the wd green ones. wtf would i store on 40 tb? at least the nsa will have cheap storage.

Well, I know I'd use one for game capture, assuming the write speed and read times are suitable. I imagine the capacity will scale with the increased data requirements of game capture over time due to increased resolution and/or fps.

I mean, currently completely lossless game capture is impractical due to write speeds as well as storage limits. The loss in color depth from RGB24 to YUV12 is quite noticeable. Right now it doesn't really matter b/c yt streams in 4:2:0, but that'll eventually change.
 
By 2020, I would half expect a reliable 10-40TB SSD that's affordable to be available.
 
let's stay at 4 TB for a year or two and make them more reliable. the rate of failure of hard drives nowadays is a joke, especially the wd green ones. wtf would i store on 40 tb? at least the nsa will have cheap storage.

Yeah, I would love to see a push for more reliable drives too.
 
Reliable, cost efficient and fast.

I do constant backups, but imagine if you had 4 TB of pictures, videos, music, documents and BAM. All gone with a single *click*. Ouch. Now, with 40 TB. OUCH!

I'd take a 2 TB reliable, long life, fast drive over a 4 TB, 2 year life drive.
 
wtf would i store on 40 tb? at least the nsa will have cheap storage.
Software always fills a hardware vacuum VERY quickly, and hopefully this would do away with the cloud crap, heh!

I can only guess how big 4K 3D movies at 120FPS would be.... :eek:
 
Hopefully memristor will be able to compete with those new HD densities
 
Yeah, yeah, I believe it when I see it.. beside SSD will probably kill HDD by 2020, even if still of lower capacity.
 
Didn't they show a working prototype based on the technologies they're touting? Not 40TB, but a large drive?
 
Yea, I'm with other people on this thread. I'm not going to say "no one will ever need drives bigger than X" but obviously reliability seems to be suffering. Must like with cellphones, bigger faster stronger but the batteries seem to get left behind.
 
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The idea of using heat changing degrees millions of times from cool to heat just doesn't sit all that well with me. I guess we'll see what technology holds. Someone has to come up with better options than SSD. I don't see SSD being the answer in the future. Too many issues and limitations with it. I mean how long has SSD been around already? Price still way too high and capacities still way too low to be viable in the future for storage. Gotta be something better, just no one has figured it out just yet.
 
Things are going to get weird.

Today, for under $1000, you have a computer on your desk that has 1,000 bytes per man, woman, and child on the planet. No cloud, just 2 HDD's. Spend under $3000, and you could have a picture of everyone on the planet, and their life history in text.

Things are going to change. And quickly.
 
I'd be perfectly happy with 500GB of local VERY fast drive space, and several TB of encrypted remote storage. But, I'd also want 100Mb+ internet connection speeds for a reasonable price.
 
so much HD porn.

with 40 TB, you'd have to buy 2 and mirror them, hoping they don't both fail simultaneously.
 
I do constant backups, but imagine if you had 4 TB of pictures, videos, music, documents and BAM. All gone with a single *click*. Ouch. Now, with 40 TB. OUCH!

Do HDD manufacturer's actually make revisions to improve reliability?

I recall hearing the same sentiments about losing all of your priceless data back through 1GB, 10GB, 100GB, 1TB launches; and I've had HDD failures on just-out $300+ 200GB drives, and again on $60 200GB drives (made years after that capacity was first available).

Mechanical hard drives just suck. Data that you value should be backed up religiously (at least twice, with one offsite).. the other 39TB is just porn :D
 
Do HDD manufacturer's actually make revisions to improve reliability?

I recall hearing the same sentiments about losing all of your priceless data back through 1GB, 10GB, 100GB, 1TB launches; and I've had HDD failures on just-out $300+ 200GB drives, and again on $60 200GB drives (made years after that capacity was first available).

Mechanical hard drives just suck. Data that you value should be backed up religiously (at least twice, with one offsite).. the other 39TB is just porn :D

Sometimes. But, they WILL fail. Some of the more recent ones I have fail a lot more often. I still have some old 6GB drives that sit in servers that are 10+ years old. They should have failed already, but they haven't.

1 TB was bad. *Click*, sqeeeeeeellllllll. All that data gone. Sure, now that movie rips can be 5+GB, it isn't as many files, but it is still a lot. Even back in the old days when I went from 6 to 20 GB, it had a lot of stuff... All that can be gone in a second.

Definitely back up. I use Crashplan for online backup and an external 1.5 GB (as well as having a drive that I hook up every few months then store whereever, it's an older 1 TB drive that only hold some very important stuff).
 
Yeah, yeah, I believe it when I see it.. beside SSD will probably kill HDD by 2020, even if still of lower capacity.

This seems more probable. By that time old mechanical moving hdds should be phased out. I imagine most systems will have nothing but ssd's and cloud storage.
 
There seems to be an issue with reliability and areal storage. The 1TB/platters seem to be worse then lesser which I read is the reason WD uses 800MB/platter on their SE and RE enterprise drives.
I swore I read Toshiba just managed to pack 1.2TB/platter. If 1TB is not so reliable then 1.2 may be worse.
It still comes down to moving parts, more patters and heads more chances for failure.
 
Are they planning on offering memristors, flying cars, and SED TV's too?

Technology projections a decade or more out generally aren't worth anything.
 
Technology projections a decade or more out generally aren't worth anything.

Article stated that TDK will offer a drive using this technology within 2 years (2H 2015), starting with 6TB drives and scaling up regularly from there.

According to their projections, it'll only take 5 years to jump from 6TB to 40TB, which is pretty amazing if true.
 
Interesting technology for sure. My personal preference is for larger SSD drives yet I know of many businesses which would benefit from the storage technology.
 
This seems more probable. By that time old mechanical moving hdds should be phased out. I imagine most systems will have nothing but ssd's and cloud storage.

Won't happen, with uhd content and other content starting to take up more memory hdds are still going to be required.
 
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