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Seagate Readies 5TB, 6TB Enterprise-Class Hard Disk Drives.
Xbitlabs ^ | 07/16/2013 07:26 PM | by Anton Shilov

Posted on 07/17/2013 8:51:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 07/17/2013 8:51:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ShadowAce

fyi


2 posted on 07/17/2013 8:51:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I would assume this is all for server farm use ... what with the cloud and all.


3 posted on 07/17/2013 8:57:36 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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Yeah, or as my buddy who is an ISP points out, “Data Center” nowadays generally is a euphemism for “My Porn Stash” ;-)


4 posted on 07/17/2013 8:58:46 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

LOL!


5 posted on 07/17/2013 8:59:47 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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Video playout servers...huge market, tremendous thirst for high capacity, low latency, low power.


6 posted on 07/17/2013 9:00:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks


7 posted on 07/17/2013 9:01:35 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That’s almost enough room to store all the B&W photos of Obama’s mother posing naked for porn magazines.


8 posted on 07/17/2013 9:06:50 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.
9 posted on 07/17/2013 9:08:34 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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>>..huge market, tremendous thirst for high capacity, low latency, low power.<<

The same for Russian brides...


10 posted on 07/17/2013 9:20:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Kip Russell

>>My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.<<

The first HD I had was 5MB Winchester. It was better than the 8” floppies we had to carefully store.

And we had to write our programs in Z80 ASM

AND WE LIKED IT!!!


11 posted on 07/17/2013 9:23:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

A 64 bit address space is in excess of 180,000 terabytes.


12 posted on 07/17/2013 9:24:11 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Kip Russell

My wife gave me a 20 meg drive as a Christmas present when we had our original Mac 128...oh, the thrill of such massive, nearly unlimited storage compared to those floppy drives! I remember it cost $600.


13 posted on 07/17/2013 9:25:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
At some point they're going to hit a physical limit on how much data they can fit on a 3.5" drive. But they're obviously not there yet. They smashed through 1 TB and they're still trucking.

What comes after tera?

14 posted on 07/17/2013 9:27:26 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: LyinLibs

Not funny.


15 posted on 07/17/2013 9:29:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ijust bought a 4 Tbyte Seagate 5900 rpm drive for less than 1/3 of that cost....before Cal State Taxes...kicked in.


16 posted on 07/17/2013 9:32:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Yardstick
Peta. I recently got a pat on the back from the boss for cramming our enterprise backups into ONLY three servers with 36 TB internal storage apiece. A tenth of a petabyte. We'll be over a petabyte before those guys come out of warranty. I figure three years, tops.
17 posted on 07/17/2013 9:32:35 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: freedumb2003

LOL!


18 posted on 07/17/2013 9:33:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Yardstick

“What comes after tera?”

General Sherman.


19 posted on 07/17/2013 9:38:53 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

OMG...they’re $170 on Amazon, now.

/HDD junkie


20 posted on 07/17/2013 9:41:58 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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