[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This may be the first 4G Drive for the consumer market.

: Hitachi Releases First Enterprise-Class 4TB Hard Drive ^

[rarestia]

Show me a 10K RPM with 128 MB cache and we’ll talk. Not saying this isn’t great for the likes of EMC. We’ll be able to get 75 TB of data in a single 25-disk 2.5” SATA III shelf, which is insane, but the seek times for data won’t be astronomical at 7.5K RPM.

[backwoods-engineer]

Wow, 4TB. I could put a few more movies on that :-)

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Is it a helium filled drive?

[dfwgator]

That’s a lot of porn.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

[taxcontrol]

Great, now I have to wipe the drool off of my keyboard.

[Hoodat]

A terabyte here, a terabyte there, and pretty soon, we’re talking about real memory.

[djf]

Start a defrag and come back in like 2019...

[TChris]

With the recent announcement of a 5x increase in areal data density technology, we may see 20 TB drives within a year or two.

Imagine a 1-2 PB NAS in a single rack. :) :) :)

NetApp, are you getting this!?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I had too many WD drives fail over the years...well before the warranty date. Seagate is the way to go. I’ve had only one Seagate fail and that was well after the warranty date.

[KoRn]

It still has moving parts..... /yawn

[MCH]

Amazing stuff. Top consumer HD capacity about 15 years ago in the ‘96-’97 time frame was around 4GB. 15 years later we’re looking at a 1000X increase in capacity on commodity drives to 4 TB. That’s about an order of magnitude increase every 5 years. As with Moore’s Law regarding compute capacity, can/will persistent storage capacity continue increasing at this rate?

[teflon9]

Picked up a 1 TB Seagate SATA drive (7200 rpm) for $50-something in late 2011, right before the drive prices started going crazy, allegedly because of flooding in Thailand. That made a lot of people buy solid-state drives. But 4TB is a lot of real estate. Takes a lot of pr0n to fill that. : )

[hattend]

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