300TB hard drive to arrive by 2010 ~ Seagate...

Inquirer ^ | Wednesday 03 January 2007, 08:12 | Nick Farrell:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seagate stakes claim

By : Wednesday 03 January 2007, 08:12

PLATTER SPINNER Seagate thinks that it will be able to create a 300 TB hard-drive by 2010.

According to Joystick, Seagate boffins are apparently working on a hard-drive which uses heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) techniques.

The boffins think that this will mean that they can shove 50TB of data into a single square inch of drive space, or around 300TB of information on a standard 3.5-inch drive.

This means that you can stuff the entire Library of Congress onto your hard-drive without any compression.

Being a gaming magazine, Joystick points out that this means that you could store 6,144 50GB Blu-ray disks or the entire Library of PS through PS3 games that could ever be created with room to spare. Of course there is no guarantee that anyone will be using Blu-Ray or the PS3 by 2010.

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[zeugma]

I cant say for certain I will ever need that much space, I mean I compute alot but I only take up 20 gb of my 100 gb drive. At my rate it will take me a thousand years to fill up 300tb's,

Dude, I remember thinking a 40MB drive would be enough space to last me the rest of my life.

Now I generate more data than that daily.

The article says you could fit the LoC on it. If we actually had the government that we pay for, you'd be able to buy the public domain portion of LoC on disk.

[zeugma]

Do you realize that this is equivalent to having 1000 300GB hard drives? Holy mackeral! What comes after terra? Penta?

Exobyte.

i'll take two. 

[DungeonMaster]

Every nudie picture ever taken!

[antiRepublicrat]

I wonder how much storage space an hour of uncompressed, high-definition holographic video would take up...

I'm not sure about holographic, but if memory serves me, 1080p at 60fps, 10 bits per channel, 4:4:4 encoded, uncompressed would run you about 1.5 terabytes per hour. But I hope you have the 444 MB/sec sustained throughput on your hard drive to be able to read or write it without getting jerky or dropping frames, respectively.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping.

[dfwgator]

Every nudie picture ever taken!

Every "money shot" as well.

[marvlus]

Exobyte.

Here's what I found on Wikipedia: Terra, then Peta, then Exa. Afte Exa comes Zetta, then comes Yotta. (similar to Santa's reindeer :-)

[Ramius]

I hope I don't still have to back it up to tape.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I haven't seen it but I may have missed it.

Simple search turned up this:

32-Core Processors: Intel Reaches For (The) Sun

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[Lazamataz]

Seagate thinks that it will be able to create a 300 TB hard-drive by 2010.

Great, but by 2011, mine will be full.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

But IBM is going to ramp up the clock speed also:

New IBM chip breaks barriers to double speed ~ speeds of between 4 and 5 gigahertz

This is on the Power6 and the second generation of the Cell chip in the SONY Play Station 3....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This will hold you for a bit and it is close in:

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

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By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: January 4, 2007, 9:01 PM PST

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Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.

The company said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, then follow up in the second quarter with 3.5-inch terabyte drives for digital video recorders, bundled with software called Audio-Visual Storage Manager for easier retrieval of data, and corporate storage systems.

The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte. Hitachi will also come out with a similar 750GB drive. Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1 terabyte drive in the first half of 2007. The two companies, along with others, will tout their new drives at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and will show off hybrid hard drives, as well.

A terabyte is a trillion bytes, or a million megabytes, or 1,000 gigabytes, as measured by the hard-drive industry. (There are actually two conventions for calculating megabytes, but this is how the drive industry counts it.) As a reference, the print collection in the Library of Congress comes to about 10 terabytes of information, according to the How Much Information study from U.C. Berkeley. The report also found that 400,000 terabytes of e-mail get produced per year. About 50,000 trees would be necessary to create enough paper to hold a terabyte of information, according to the report.

Who needs this sort of storage capacity? You will, eventually, said Doug Pickford, director of market and product strategy at Hitachi. Demand for data storage capacity at corporations continues to grow, and it shows no sign of abating. A single terabyte drive takes up less space than four 250GB drives, which lets IT managers conserve on computing room real estate. The drive can hold about 330,000 3MB photos or 250,000 MP3s, according to Hitachi's math.

Consumers, meanwhile, are gobbling up more drive capacity because of content like video. An hour of standard video takes up about 1GB, while an hour of high-definition video sucks up 4GB, Pickford said.

Consumers, though, tend to be skeptical of ever needing more storage capacity.

"We heard that when we brought out 1 gigabyte drives," Pickford said.

The boost in capacity for desktop drives comes in part through the introduction of perpendicular recording technology to 3.5-inch-diameter drives. In perpendicular drives, data can be stored in vertical columns, rather than on a single plane. Drive makers have already released notebook drives, which sport smaller 2.5-inch-diameter drives, with perpendicular recording. The 1 terabyte drives will be Hitachi's first 3.5-inch drives with perpendicular recording.

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Currently, Hitachi sells 3.5-inch drives that hold 500GB of data, while Seagate has come out with a 750GB data drive.

Drive makers convert to perpendicular recording when the need for areal density, the measure of how much data can be crammed into a square inch, passes 125 gigabits. The terabyte drive (and the 750GB drive) can hold 148 gigabits per square inch, or 148 billion bits. Hitachi's previous 3.5-inch drives maxed out at 115 gigabits per square inch.

The hard drive turned 50 last year, and over the past five decades data capacity has increased at a fairly regular and rapid pace. The first drive, which came with the RAMAC computer, weighed about a ton and held 5MB of data.

[LibWhacker]

So when the price on those puppies comes down, does this mean my bank won't try to squeeze me when I need to access account data that's more than six months old?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sounds like your bank is one of those Fee Fee Banks....

[LibWhacker]

As in here a fee, there a fee, everywhere a fee, fee? You've got that right! In fact, we have three or four accounts at banks around town and none of them let us look at transactions online older than about six months old, without charging us some kind of extra fee.

But with this much cheap storage coming into the market place soon, I don't how they are going to be able to continue justifying those fees and successfully compete with their more nimble competitors.

[roaddog727]

Holy crap.

I can remeber back (not too long ago) when 1TB cost $1 million bucks.

Just Damn, indeedy.

[Bean Counter]

I hate to admit it, but I remember when an 80mb hard drive was big, big news...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I was into this stuff before that.....

Some history:

STORAGE DEVICES

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More History on a Form discussion:

(Photos: Making the first disk drive)

I haven't found the photos....