Western Digital Magnetic Storage Breakthrough Going For 40TB HDDs
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wavetrex
People: "HDD's will die in 5 years and be replaced by SSDs bla bla bla..."
Western Digital: "Hold my beer"
JonasBeckman
The one HDD you absolutely want your friends to destroy when you pass away.
Well the initial models will probably be aimed and priced squarely at data centers at major industries but it's a sign of the future of data storage I guess, whether it's a big game library or a library of other forms of media ha ha.
Kaarme
kruno
Vananovion
Don't forget also the reliability and longevity of HDDs. It is just a much more mature technology than SSDs. SSDs are getting there and at a much faster pace than HDDs did, but IMHO it will still take 15 years or more before we see SSDs widely used for mass storage.
As a side note - when "tech visionaries" say some technology is going to die in X years, I always disregard it. Market moves too slowly, while technology moves too fast to make at least a somewhat accurate prediction.
Silva
geogan
The “spin torque oscillator” - this is what makes time-travel possible.
JJayzX
wavetrex
http://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/news/070905_p10_hynix.jpghttps://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2007/12/the_secrets_of_pc_memory_part_2/mcp.jpg
https://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/toshiba-mmc-stack.jpg
3D Nand is somewhat reducing the need to package that many planar dies in the same chip, but it's not removing it.
1 TB still has twice the number of dies than 0.5 TB.
Ignorance is bliss... right?
Do you realize that 2 silicon dies are twice as expensive to produce than 1 identical silicon die ? Probably not.
One of those flash chips inside the SSD is a stack of sometime 4, 8, 12... 16, 24 or 32 silicon dies one on top of another.
risc32
look at this guy thinking that the price to make something has anything to do with how much something costs.
Prince Valiant
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they were making more per sale with SSDs than regular drives.
kruno
kruno
FerCam™
This looks like being based on maser technology instead of laser.
Lex Luthor
This is good tech for the current time. Just think of how much $ in electricity ($/TB) this will save a data center...yea, there's a market (but get it to market sooner than later as it will change.)
And I'd like to say HAMR just got HAMeRed!
fry178
@Vananovion
HDDs more reliable?!
so far i had a couple of hdds die in the 11y i used them,
but not one of the ssd's (9y) including some no name/lower quality ones.
i use them the for the same stuff (OS/programs/backup/external backup/trash drive for temp storage) and the same way and keep em for the same amount of time (depending for what its used)
maybe a HDDS if i had a NAS or similar.
Vananovion
@fry178
And I've had HDDs for 10+ years without a hitch, while an SSD died on me in 3 years. Anecdotal evidence vs. anecdotal evidence.
Then again, I may be wrong. Maybe we just learned to live with the unreliability and deal with it efficiently.
kruno
Neo Cyrus
Aura89
https://therevisionist.org/reviews/ssd-vs-hdd-one-reliable/
https://regmedia.co.uk/2010/12/10/hdd_ssd_failure_rates_with_2tb_hdd.jpg
And other, countless websites.
Personal statistics mean diddly squat. Market statistics are where it is at.