Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: In a new research paper the VP of Infrastructure at Google argues for hard drive manufacturers and data center provisioners to consider revisions to the current 3.5" form-factor in favour of taller, multi-platter form factors — with the possibility of combining the new format with HDDs of smaller circumference which hold less data but have better seek times. Eric Brewer, also a professor at UC Berkeley, writes "The current 3.5" HDD geometry was adopted for historic reasons – its size inherited from the PC floppy disk. An alternative form factor should yield a better TCO overall. Changing the form factor is a long term process that requires a broad discussion, but we believe it should be considered."

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Urs Hölzle - Moron

[Khyber]

"In a new research paper the VP of Infrastructure at Google argues for hard drive manufacturers and data center provisioners to consider revisions to the current 3.5" form-factor in favour of taller, multi-platter form factors"

Google needs to fire this idiot. First off, we moved away from the larger drives BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE MORE POWER TO OPERATE AND GENERATE FUCKTONS OF HEAT. Secondly, SSDs are at and beyond the capabilities of spinning rust under a layer of vapor-deposited platinum. Third, SSDs are much smaller - even the typical 2.5" laptop drives are mostly empty space. Fourth, the energy required to manufacture an SSD is about 25% of what is required to make a comparable HDD.

Can someone tell me what 'University' this 'VP of Infrastructure' attended so I know not to send my children to such a moronic 'Institution of Education?'