Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives on their way

Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by fasteddie31003 on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:43AM (#3729138)

In the PC consumer's choice between SSD and traditional HD, I suspect that the decreasing marginal returns from this increase in storage space, will not outweigh the benefits of SSDs. However, in the server market this increase will continue to favor traditional HDs.

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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by rkudeshi on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @10:37AM (#3729431)

Not just the server market. Home storage is ever-expanding too.

For example, my laptop has a 250GB HDD and I have a few (read: too many) external hard drives that add up to about 10TB.

I would love to replace my laptop drive with a SSD and the external drives with one or two of these new 6TB drives.

SSDs are great, but that doesn't some people won't also need big HDDs.

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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by wisty on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @10:41AM (#3729449)

Hybrid drives will also be a big deal. You'll have 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and 4TB HD. Plenty of space for a media collection (no, you will never have enough), and fast access to frequently-used stuff (like databases, docs, programs).

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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by latch on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @10:15AM (#3729307)

I don't disagree, but to play the devil's advocate..

How soon until Dell, HPs (etc) ship more desktops with SSDs than with mechanical drives? The average consumer doesn't understand the difference and doesn't want to pay extra (even though it's probably the best performance/$ upgrade possible).

On the flip side, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw significant adoption for servers that can live with the space limit (or that can design around it). Server-based applications are often I/O bound, established solutions are expensive, and the people responsible know and care.

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Re:Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives ... by baq on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @02:16PM (#3730682)

they'll use Intel Smart Response or something similar and use a smallish 20-40GB SSD (possibly welded to the mobo) together with a big HDD.

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