24TB disks

[Mr-White]

Researchers from Hitachi and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation in Japan have developed a new technology that could lead to 24TB hard drives.

More here

With hard disks continuing to grow in size at such a pace, it's still going to be a while before SSDs take over. Couldn't imagine the cost of a 24TB SSD

MW

 

[KIA]

Love me some mass storage!

 

[King Damager]

Jesus christ.... who would need 24TB of space...

Although yeah would certainly guarantee Hard disks continue to dominate over SSD's for mass storage, I still think however if they manage to get the price of SSD's down, more and more people will be using them for OS's and core programs.

kd

 

[mjones1]

Thats too much data to have on 1 drive, if it fails your screwed.

 

[jonislost]

Thats too much data to have on 1 drive, if it fails your screwed.

Not really, 10 years ago people were like: "10GB?! Thats too much data to have on 1 drive, if it fails your screwed."

 

[Matthew-1985]

Can't wait. I could have my entire porn collection on just one drive then. It would only just fit though so I'd want two.

 

[psd99]

wow 24GB Drive that's insane why not make a 1PB drive instead?

 

[Mr-White]

Can't wait. I could have my entire porn collection on just one drive then. It would only just fit though so I'd want two.

I out grew a single drive a long time a go, my collection is now backed up on my SAN for the added redundancy

MW

 

[marc1024]

id rather 1 drive, then you would have more room in cases to put more fans to cool

but also agree 24tb can be to much...i cant even fill up 1 tb and i have tonnes of games, movies and ****!!. If you have all that info on 1 drive and that 1 driver fails well you will have some bald head at the end of the day.

 

[PhillyDee]

Of course, you would be an idiot to not at least have redundancy!

 

[3t3P]

24 jiggawatts!

 

[Thomss]

Giz it.

 

[jaybee]

Jesus christ.... who would need 24TB of space...

Although yeah would certainly guarantee Hard disks continue to dominate over SSD's for mass storage, I still think however if they manage to get the price of SSD's down, more and more people will be using them for OS's and core programs.

kd

Come back and read your post again in 5 years. You may laugh at your own comment. I could easily use 24TB of storage if I was ruthless with collecting HD films and music and storing them all electronically. I already could easily use 10TB.

 

[rush_syndrome]

Thats too much data to have on 1 drive, if it fails your screwed.

If you can afford a 24TB disk then you can afford another one for the redundancy

Place your bets on how much? I reckon around £1.5k a pop given that 3TB drives are around £180.

 

[Mr-White]

If you can afford a 24TB disk then you can afford another one for the redundancy

That's not entirely true, if I can afford a house or car doesn't mean I could afford 2 :-/

MW

 

[DragonQ]

24 TB sounds good. Would be nice to see a drive less than half full on my PC for once.

 

[Hudzy]

That's not entirely true, if I can afford a house or car doesn't mean I could afford 2 :-/

MW

It's true enough. It's the same as saying if you can afford a car then you can afford insurance.

 

[Boozebeard]

I think people are failing to realise a 24TB drive would mainly be useful to the professional and commercial markets for servers etc.

 

[tomos]

i could make use of one

 

[Mr-White]

It's true enough. It's the same as saying if you can afford a car then you can afford insurance.

That only works if you're sensible and don't blow your entire bank balance on the new car

MW