Seagate Says 16TB Hard Drive To Hit Market Within 18 Months (techspot.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:40AM from the thirst-for-more-storage dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: If you haven't shopped around for hard drives in a while, you may be surprised at what's out there. The largest 3.5-inch desktop hard drives currently available from Seagate, for example, offer a whopping 10TB of capacity for less than $500. In the event that 10TB isn't quite enough storage and a multi-drive setup isn't ideal, you'll be happy to hear that Seagate over the next 18 months plans to ship 14TB and 16TB drives. A 12TB HDD based on helium technology is currently undergoing testing and according to CEO Stephen Luczo, initial feedback is positive. Most enthusiasts and even some PC manufacturers are now using solid state drives as their primary drive due to the fact that they're much faster and more power-efficient. What's more, because they have no moving parts, SSDs generate no noise and are much more durable.

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Great! by TWX · 2017-01-27 06:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can lose even more data when a single disk crashes!

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Re:And you still can't back it up by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-27 07:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

Buy 2
Re:And you still can't back it up by religionofpeas · 2017-01-27 07:26 · Score: 5, Funny

I just divide it into two equal partitions, and make copies of everything.
Re:Now it's helium-filled drives. by garryknight · 2017-01-27 11:09 · Score: 5, Funny

My friends speak quite highly of helium.

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