Looks like these 8TB drives will be out shortly

"Bigger is better. Seagate just shipped the world's first 8 TB hard drives to "select customers", a new milestone for fitting gobs of data on a single 3.5-inch platter."

"Seagate is probably achieving this by using a technology called Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), which overlaps tracks on a platter like shingles on a roof. Seagate has said in the past that they can create 20TB drives using SMR by 2020"

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/08/seagat ... ard-drive/


Loki

Time to start rethinking my flat rate pricing scale.

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We've been told Seagate is releasing 10TB drives by the end of the year. All of them are non-helium of course.

There will be a 12TB drive by the end of 2015 or first quarter of 2016.

It's only a few weeks since WD launched their 5TB and 6TB drives.

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So whats happening with these 1TB flash chips Toshiba and other keep harping on about. I read a report mentioning some of the specs of the new Data Centre in Utah where the US will hold all the data it gets spying on the world, and it said that it was using 1TB flash chips in the storage arrays. I would have thought a few flash chips would be easier to make than these huge capacity HDDs..

Where are we supposed to store customer DATA when we are recovering.. we are going to need a data centre ourselves

Or a modular "data centre" that would accommodate your data needs. I think the giant data centers concept will slowly die due to that security comfort issue and and basically people are going to order a giant pod outside their building.

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I don't think a Giant pod will be necessary, but something will. like many things that go up or down then up again, or become the in thing, then out again... fashions "whats old is new again" mobile phones pre-apple then Apple now android. wouldn't be surprised to see Windows start to dramatically drop in next 5-10 years(especially with the baffling Windows 8 WTF).

I see a rise in what we call cloud.. apps hosted elsewhere, cloud based VDI, cloud storage.

There will be a time where a cloud based service offering 10TB storage will compare to a single flash drive or PCIe card or whatever. it will start to swing back once these technologies are figured out. I don't think it will change cloud so much as we will have both technologies. For me to use cloud it would be ridiculous, a lot of my work is using .ISOs, windows, windows server, Images, Dev kits etc.. not practical to be pulling down 10GB one day when I look at a workstation and I need to reimage, install Photoshop and visual Studio etc.

One massive issue that I see in the future is that many people now are starting to upload to cloud services. there is going to be a LOT of collective data out there. There are going to be people that abandon their data as the did their geocities accounts. Some of the cloud data is extremely easy to get to, protected by a single password. right now, for the general population that cant keep a portable HDD safe for 6 Months, cloud is the way. A lot of people I know have trouble actually using, maintaining a hard disk, and don't even talk about backing up. Cloud is like the portable HDD with a free auto-backup. We all know backups are that thing you do after you have a HDD fail.

One thing that is weird. The amount of data we need or actually use hasn't really changed in 3 years. there are some small increases in data size, but I think it is mainly video, music and home video and home photos. if you look at how much life, the web and storage is dedicated to just those things.. it is crazy. I think that as soon as you get 1TB chips, 10TB drives.. the resolution and quality of these things will increase and we will just ride along on the same storage ratio.

Imagine having a cloud backup service when your PC has 2 10TB HDDs in them, or you have a cheap D-Link NAS Box with 5 10TB drives in it.. Hope you have a good internet connection.

hard enough to get work done in a timely fashion without 6 PCs running when you get in a couple of 64GB flash devices and 32GB.. 3 or 4 cases like that in a day and the Data size gets to be a factor.. having to do ECC operations and copy images around gets challenging.

That's my rambling take on the situ anyway..