Posted on 03/02/2013 8:58:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Those who need large capacity are those who want to keep and stockpile large amounts of information, i.e., the federal government.
Or people who collect movies, music and/or photographs.
First - look at my name - I live here.
Seagate has a building a couple blocks away from the Solyndra building. They are already here, so moving to a new location isn’t going to be a stretch for them.
Nice to see the building will be occupied - even though it went for about 1/6th of its cost.
I’ve worked in the valley for 30+ years. One thing that has repeatedly been true is that rotating media always wins for density and cost/bit.
A few years ago I worked on a nanomachine based storage technology. It was like a disk-drive on a chip, i.e. they had recording media on the chip, and used nanomachines to move lots of read/write heads over the media. They coudn’t get the densities they needed to even compete with flash.
Flash, etc doesn’t replace rotating media because it wears out eventually - much quicker than rotating media anyway.
So I believe you’re going to see drives much as they exist today for the foreseeable future.
500GB is ample for most people. I do professional videos and transfer uncompressed. So, my needs are greater. I put all of my videos and my parents videos on a 2T disk RAID 0 set.
You would have thought that rotating mag media would have seen its end years ago. But they keep coming up with ways to pack more bits into the same space. At some point, you'd think that they would reach the limits of the physical/magnetic properties but there seems to be no limit. Lol.
Wow. I didn’t realize this. They were pitching them at the computer store the other day. They claimed that they were faster.
They are basically NAND flash, correct? Read access is pretty fast. Write access, slow. Definitely not ideal for replacing your basic w/r hard drive. You could probably put the read only part of the OS and apps on an SSD and then w/r on a standard hard drive. Boot would be faster.
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