2.5TB HDDs by 2009!

[DragonMaster]

Some 1TBs for the end of the year too!

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Seagate-2-5-TB-HDDs-by-2009-35723.shtml


A recent press release put out by Seagate presents how the future 421 Gbit density would boost up storage capacities. Thus, the new technology could result into 275 GB HDDs. The future 2.5-inch laptop drives would level out at 500 GB, while 3.5-inch desktop drives would be able to store as much as 2.5 TB. Seagate claims that these outstanding capacities will be introduced by 2009.

Seagate is not racing on its own. Hitachi, another important HDD producer, announced holographic drives that can store up to 1 TB by the end of 2006. Both companies use Komag as primary supplier for their high density platters and Seagate might release 1TB HDDs as soon as early 2007.

[werty316]

I read this a few days ago on Dailytech (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4193) and given how fast we have climbed to 750GB I would almost expect to see 2.5TB drives much sooner.

[DragonMaster]

Yay... Hitachi just released perpendicular drives and they're switching to holographic now!

[darkorb]

they should stop making more room on hdds, cuz like 750gb is enough, u can just get like 4 of those and ur set, but, they should focus more on the reliablitity of hard drives

[werty316]

Thats where flash HDs, and HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) come it ;)

[DragonMaster]

they should stop making more room on hdds, cuz like 750gb is enough, u can just get like 4 of those and ur set,

Game makers will be all happy to release bloaty games... At least, 1TB would help for HDTV recording!

but, they should focus more on the reliablitity of hard drives
And speed... (Isn't an higher density helping this?)

We should also think that the larger HDDs are going to cost less money...

Thats where flash HDs, and HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) come it
I don't really believe in flash : static or over-voltage could make you lose all your data, and the life of these is pretty limited. Also, as flash chips are going bigger, they're going slower. They still need to improve that technology. (Dunno about holographic tho. Does it last long?)

[werty316]

Reliability should be better since there are not moving parts

[DragonMaster]

Reliability should be better since there are not moving parts

That kind, yes, but flash has a limited operations number, and lifetime. If you look at some flash chip datasheets, they say that the chips can last 10-25 years normally or up to a certain number of operations. I wonder if they hape the same problem as EPROMs or EEPROMs also : The more they're used, the slower the access time.

Compared to HDDs, where you can stick the platters in an other same-model HDD if the electronics die, when the flash chip is dead, it's dead.