10TB hard drive

How did we get here so fast? The thing is, the use cases for disks of this size are starting to dwindle:

- They are very difficult to backup, so a huge loss if one goes south
- In RAID, rebuild times would be enormous

The capacities have increased dramatically, but the speed of access has remained roughly the same.
 
When I got my first hard drive (which to the best of my knowledge still works), I remember thinking how many disks would I need to back up 20MB!
 
price per tb is still a big factor though, saying we might have 10tb ssd drives over the next few years is great if they are a few hundred quid but no good if they want 5k a drive for them
 
The issue isnt 10tb it's the 1.5/2tb price crossover..... which is going to happen far faster with NAND then the previous SSD size/cost growth.

But given the rapid change in pricing and the market for large SSDs I can see that happening in 12 months, with high capacity 4/6 tb cross over within 24 month.
 
That seems to be using proprietary tech which is unsuited to the average home user. Probably great if you had 10gb of movie files you wanted on a disk to keep as a media library mind and use another drive for areas with common rewrites.
 
From what that article says it does not sound like these 10tbs are going to be available it says they are server class hard drives and require special software to work.....

I hope they do make a desktop variant just to have a 10tb deathstar lol
 
Do we know when OCUK are going to be stocking WD Red 10TBs?

Re. Mech\Vs SSD, it's all about cost per GB. They serve different market segments. Looking forward to HAMR drives, I don't suspect mechanical drives are going anywhere soon.
 
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