HDDs with HAMR HD Density based Platters bring 80 TB HDDs on the horizon
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schmidtbag
Those are some impressive numbers, and will surely keep HDDs relevant a bit longer. These drives would be excellent for archiving, since their sequential read/write speeds ought to be very fast and they just have so much capacity. However, the random read speeds of these must be absolutely atrocious. You might need an SSD just for dedicating indexing, and another SSD for cache.
RavenMaster
I haven't touched a mechanical hard drive since 2015 and would never go back to using them. Your basic SATA SSD's are reasonably priced, plenty faster and with no moving parts inside them, less likely to skip (in a laptop) or break. And they run silent.
NVMe SSD's offer even better performance with insane speeds and now they're cheap enough to buy with decent capacities that you can use them as your main OS drive and for storage. They take up far less space too.
theoneofgod
TLD LARS
Silva
80TB is astonishing, considering that my first PC came with a 7Gb HDD or so. For long years to come HDD will still be the go to for mass storage and archival needs.
I've been using SSD for boot drive for a couple years now and just invested on an NVMe. I wouldn't go back to HDD, but the price just isn't there for SSD storage.
The common mortal will use maybe a fast 512Gb/1Tb NVMe as a boot drive and a 1/2Tb SATA SSD for casual storage. Then have External HDD as needed to have an offline archive to go back to.
tsunami231
SHS
RavenMaster is for sure off his rocker as small nas with will still cost you arm & leg as much new car
You forgot yes DVR and DVD/Blu-ray Movie user
kendoka15
It annoys me to no end when people claim HDDs have no purpose anymore because apparently SSDs are dirt cheap. Try finding a high capacity SSD, oh wait those don't exist. Try finding a medium capacity SSD that doesn't cost A LOT more than a similarly sized HDD. Oh wait, those don't exist. The cheapest 2TB SSD I can find on newegg.com is a Crucial BX500 for $200 USD. I can find many HDDs of a similar size for a quarter of the price, from reputable brands like WD. Mass storage still requires HDDs, unless you're made of money or don't need more than a few TB.
0blivious
That is big. My first PC came with no usable internal space, just a cassette drive and floppy drive. 80TB is pretty amazing. At least today. Give it some years, this will be smaller than what we have in our mobile devices.
Astyanax
SATA HDD's are at a dead end.
time to move to SAS HDD's with multiple actuators
wavetrex
Venix
@wavetrex people so often think only about their use case thinking is the onlyway and only use case sadly , companies still back up terabytes on tape !
Astyanax
Stormyandcold
Nice. However, just thinking about backing-up the backup is giving me more grey hairs lol.
Mufflore
From a home user perspective :
With current drive speeds, at best it will take 4.6 days of uninterrupted copying at 200MB/s to fill 80TB, 1.1 days for 20TB.
Backing it up will be just as much an issue.
Average speed of most drives (you will copy to/from) is much lower unless in RAID. You will be lucky to have near only 10% of the drives capacity in SSDs.
I also fear for its random access speed.
This isnt meant for home users yet, the price tag will dictate that.
But progress is progress. We will learn how reliable it is in the long term before it reaches mainstream. It will no doubt evolve.
I have to hope multi head controller drives become the norm, effectively RAID inside a single drive. This will reduce the storage space any head has to address making access times and read/write faster. Multi head can be used more creatively to allow multiple reads/writes simultaneously, giving the same benefit as independent drives
Wikip says ye normal 20TB HAMR drives are expected this year.
Astyanax
Mufflore
rl66
Astyanax
Ok, found some evidence of SMR being SATA compatible, but HAMR is an expansion of SMR
https://sata-io.org/developers/sata-ecosystem/shingled-magnetic-recording-boosting-capacity-and-lowering-costs
geogan
80TB in one 3.5" drive using HAMR tech == I APPROVE
https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/s_79/799fc39d28d387109d9df1827c8534b4.jpeg