6Tb drives, when are we getting them?
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would love the space but isn't helium flammable ? 
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Helium is the least reactive element known to science...
Basically, its going to be impossible to set helium on fire (unless you count nuclear fusion).
On a side note, even highly flammable gassses cannot combust if there is no oxygen present.
Basically, its going to be impossible to set helium on fire (unless you count nuclear fusion).
On a side note, even highly flammable gassses cannot combust if there is no oxygen present.
Fission.
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AFAIK there has to be something there to maintain a distance between the read head and the platter. In a vacuum, the head would hit the platter. Disks have an altitude rating and are designed to operate within a given set of air density values.
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I'm seriously looking forward to some advances in storage technology. SDDs have been silly expensive for what you get for way too long, and hard disks feel like they've been stagnating. Though I know the floods and price gouging because of those floods has been part (main) of the reason that hard disks haven't really moved on much in terms of price per gigabyte, I'm really looking forward to being able to fill my media server with 6-8 6TB hard disks.
Nope, fusion. Really.
yup helium 3 with duterium creates clean energy, a shame we dont have much Helium 3 to play with
Clean is a bit of a stretch - you end up thoroughly irradiating the power plant - but cleaner than fission at least. Got to start from hydrogen really, but that's proving difficult. Feeding a fusion plant hydrogen produced by electrolysing seawater seems like the way to go.
Oh - 4TB drives are barely with us, so I'd expect 6 to be at least a year off
Oh - 4TB drives are barely with us, so I'd expect 6 to be at least a year off
Thanks for that, that was a genuine question in my head as well
At least you might be able to tell when ur HDD is knackered as you will be squeeking when talking
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I can see it in the GH threads already:
"I think my HDD is knackered, how can I test it?"
"take a deep breath, now do you sound like Elmo?"
6TB sounds good, but the only thing that worries me with high capacity drives is that if it dies, you lose so much data! So you have to buy another to backup, etc etc.
