300 TB Hard Drive to Be Offered By 2010
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300 TB Hard Drive to Be Offered By 2010
Seagate recently announced that they plan to offer a 300 TB hard drive by the year 2010. Considering that currently the biggest hard drive they offer is 750 GB, this is quite the announcement. Information on the technology is still a little bit fuzzy, but initial reports are that the hard drive will utilize perpendicular recording, instead of horizontal recording which is currently the standard, and will also utilize heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). With this new technology, one square inch will now be able to hold 50 TB of data. The pure size of 300 TB in today’s world is simply incomprehensible. As Joystiq explains, this much memory could hold the entire Library of Congress uncompressed, or 6,144 dual-sided blu-ray disks. We thought it would be interesting to take the comparison a little bit further, and found out that 300 TB is equal to:
* 36,141 DVD’s (8.5 GB each)
* 393,216 CD’s (800 MB each)
* 3,840 iPod’s (80 GB each)
* 112,307 Gmail Accounts (currently at 2801 MB)
* 36,141 DVD’s (8.5 GB each)
* 393,216 CD’s (800 MB each)
* 3,840 iPod’s (80 GB each)
* 112,307 Gmail Accounts (currently at 2801 MB)
Re: 300 TB Hard Drive to Be Offered By 2010
Aren't CD's 700MB?Apoptosis wrote: * 393,216 CD’s (800 MB each)
That makes it 438,857 CD's
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That's NTFS that has the 2TB limitation, not the OS. So Vista is in the same boat as XP. Linux can have partitions upto and over 16TB, depending on if you use a 64bit Filesystem/kernel and what filesystem you use.Zoogle wrote:What OS supports a drive that large? I think Windows XP tops out at 2TB. I'm not sure about the limitations of Vista or Linux.
The XFS Filesystem can go upto 8EB in theory (exabytes) ( TB < PB < EB)
Good god, we're into exabytes now???
I'll have to see this before I can believe it, I can only imagine the holographic discs reaching sizes of 300TB by that date, which is what I think they had planned out.
I know Seagate and Hitachi have both announced plans to launch 1TB drives this year, so they have a ways to go...
I'll have to see this before I can believe it, I can only imagine the holographic discs reaching sizes of 300TB by that date, which is what I think they had planned out.
I know Seagate and Hitachi have both announced plans to launch 1TB drives this year, so they have a ways to go...
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Actually, with having a 300TB drive and 2TB max partition size, it'd be 150 partitions, in theory.Kalko wrote:& where's the problem having 5-9 partitions?
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Re: 300 TB Hard Drive to Be Offered By 2010
Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive Coming In 2010
and Guess What,Check out the Storage Space of the Future. Want an Alphabyte? I sure do!!!
and Guess What,Check out the Storage Space of the Future. Want an Alphabyte? I sure do!!!
Re: 300 TB Hard Drive to Be Offered By 2010
Nate, I think you need to contact Seagate and ask them about this ;) I mean, 2TB is nice but 300TB is just a bit more, I would say lol
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Re: 300 TB Hard Drive to Be Offered By 2010
Here is what I think an Alphabyte hard disk will look like:
Size: as big as a plasma TV (3.5 >>> Feet)
Interface: SATA XXXVII 1>8 TB/S
Cache: 64 TB
Data cable: as thick as a tree
power: right from your wall socket, and the socket might explode, 1 Mega watt
Rotation speed 1,000,000,000 RPM
cooling method: better to put it in your freezer.
and all that for an Alphabyte CAVIAR GREEN !
imagine the black !
Size: as big as a plasma TV (3.5 >>> Feet)
Interface: SATA XXXVII 1>8 TB/S
Cache: 64 TB
Data cable: as thick as a tree
power: right from your wall socket, and the socket might explode, 1 Mega watt
Rotation speed 1,000,000,000 RPM
cooling method: better to put it in your freezer.
and all that for an Alphabyte CAVIAR GREEN !
imagine the black !
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