5Tb drives due in 2010

[Graeme*Kustom*]

Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

Depends who's brain I suppose.

Either way, that's a lot of stuff. Begs the question though, that the only way to back it up is to keep buying more hard drives.

Read more here :
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/04/hitachi_5tb_hdd_2010/

[latency]

Lot of eggs in one basket... No point in owning one unless you have a second to back up to methinks...

[BloomerzUK]

I remember I paid like £80 for a 250GB WD HDD like one year ago, now I can get a 1TB for just under that. Shocking.

Wonder what the price tag will be like on release... £300?

[Fat Jez]

Kids of today. I remember paying £150 for a 120MB drive and thinking it was massive. I was using it with an Amiga though, so I suppose it was :D

[latency]

Commence; "I remember when hard drives costed THIS much!!!" war ;)

I remember paying £70 for a 6GB Fujitsu, that made a mind numbing whine it's entire life!

[edit: Damn! Was beaten to starting the war and to the most expensive drive ;)]

[NickB]

My first hard drive was 200MB, and when it was upgraded to a 1GB drive, I couldn't even conceive of ever needing any more space in the remainder of my life. Think it was around £200 too.
Nick

[saltynay]

Thats a very dubious claim as no-one has mapped the entirety of the human brain to the extent we could put a numerical figure to how much "computer" memory it is in comparison.

example
"The human eye really sees a larger field of view, close to 180 degrees. Let's be conservative and use 120 degrees for the field of view. Then we would see
120 * 120 * 60 * 60 / (0.3 * 0.3) = 576 megapixels."
from: http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html

[Fireblade]

Hexus newsletter(s) Graeme :D

Can you imagine losing a full 5TB's worth of backups :eek:
And sod having to full-format one of those puppies!

But maybe manufacturer's will be able pre-format their drives at the factory by that time as well?
It would probably have to be FAT32 - such that older Windows 9x OS can recognise it, so those of us using XP +/or Vista would (most likely want to) convert it to NTFS.
But that would be a small price t' pay for the comparative time saving I'd say :cool:

[Tom]

But maybe manufacturer's will be able pre-format their drives at the factory by that time as well?
It would probably have to be FAT32 - such that older Windows 9x OS can recognise it, so those of us using XP +/or Vista would (most likely want to) convert it to NTFS.
But that would be a small price t' pay for the comparative time saving I'd say :cool:
My army of Linux servers shall consider your suggestion, and subject you to torture in the mean time.

[Tom]

Well, I can't start a new thread in this area, but I thought some of you would be interested to know that 1.5TB HDDs aren't too far away (http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/07/10/200209.shtml). Seagate's new drive is claimed to muster 120MB/sec read (http://www.hothardware.com/GenericErrorPage.htm?aspxerrorpath=/News/Seagates_Latest_Desktop_HDD_Has_15TB_Capacity/Default.aspx), too. :)

[Chris_M]

A 5Tb drive?

So what will that format to?

[Tom]

So what will that format to?
Check out the right-hand column on this table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits).

Short story: you're OK with NTFS (at least) until we hit 16777216TiB :)

[Westy5]

Check out the right-hand column on this table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits).

Short story: you're OK with NTFS (at least) until we hit 16777216TiB :)

I think he meant 'If the marketing buffoons sell me a 5TB drive (using 1GB = 1000,000B), what does that equate to in the real world (where 1GB = 1024,000B)'

Insert correct conversion factors, units as required etc etc

[Tom]

I think he meant 'If the marketing buffoons sell me a 5TB drive (using 1GB = 1000,000B), what does that equate to in the real world (where 1GB = 1024,000B)'

Insert correct conversion factors, units as required etc etc
Whoops :o

5TB == 4.547473509TiB, I believe.

[DarkEntity]

slight tangent, but i remember paying *gulp* £339.99 for 16mb Ram in a 72pin Sim... *gulp*

[TriggerHappy]

As the past has shown, what seems big now will seem small soon :p The question is, when does this trend stop, ie we reach the point where coding applications capable of filling such a drive requires more money/time than its worth for the companies.

[Tom]

The question is, when does this trend stop, ie we reach the point where coding applications capable of filling such a drive requires more money/time than its worth for the companies.
I'm sorry, your argument has expired (http://bittorrent.com). :p