OHhh to be old. Remember folks.. The wording to which alot of you post, "I will never need that much space", that comment alone is almost older than "I dont need that speed". In 1993- A Premier PC was a x486 dx2/66, 8Mb Ram, 420mb hd, 2mb video ram, 14.4 modem. 1999 20gb hard drives hit the scene,, Seagate baracuda's 7200 rpm, $200 for 20gb. 1TB drives were same thing. Why do we need that much space, was the rave. Now as of 2014 5TB Drives.. are being filled up, just as fast. Notice 420mb drives.. not GB

if in 10 years we still need to use HDD, we better shoot ourselves...How many TB can one fit into a 3,5" enclosure today using flash ? Just from the volume 100 TB in flash would be possible without problems. Would be nice to have some holographic storage, but I thinkt those cubes will still take another 40 years....but a petabyte in a dice will be nice 😀

Remember folks.. The wording to which alot of you post, "I will never need that much space", that comment alone is almost older than "I dont need that speed".

I realize all to well. I filled up my first 4TB HDD quicker then expected. Was going for a 6TB now, but prices on 4TB (TB vs dollar value) are way better. You're almost better of buying 2 4TB HDD's compared to 1 6TB HDD.

TBH, I presume there will be 16k screens by then, thats 36 megapixel per frame. A single movie would be around 1/2 TB. That would be 200 movies on 100TB drive.

Hmm, 8K (16:9) is 33.2MP (up from 8.3MP for 4K). A 16:9 16K display will be 15,360x8,640 which makes it 132.7MP! The biggest pixel count on a commercial still camera now is 80MP (medium format). You will need to increase that by 66% and then make it work for videography (preferably on small sensors like (Super) 35mm). So I think 16K is still ways off, especially for the mainstream consumer. Just look at how long it took HD to become widely adopted.

I think many people in here are wrong. Yes in 10 years we should have pretty cheap 4-6TB SSD's but that doesn;t mean a 100TB mechanical hard drive wouldn't be useful still. I know I'm not the only 1 but I like to store full blu ray disc images of movies so when I watch them I still retain all the bonus features and the cool menus and such and i get zero downgrade in quality compared to ripped videos encoded in x264 etc. And these copied disc images take up 20-40GB of space each on average. So we are talking like only 30 movies can fit inside 1TB. So with a 100TB drive I could fit 3000 movies. I could easily see myself amassing a 3000 movie collection in this format. For consumers like me we still need mechanical drives as the speed of a mechanical drive is still plenty fast enough to keep up with even a 4k movie stream and using SSD's would still be insanely too expensive. Also enterprises would still have a need for huge storage like this.

Though I do think eventually we're going to go to SSD's for mainstream usage and mechanicals for just full on storage (for companies and people that need to store large amounts of data for whatever reason). At work I see people with external HDD's of 500GB and they've only filled 1/10th of it. Meanwhile I'm filling up my 2nd 4TB HDD... I can see myself running all my PC's with SSD's in the future and just having a NAS with X TB worth of HDD's really.