Seagate to produce 5TB hard drive next year, 20TB by 2020

hga · on Sept 10, 2013

A very cool trick ... that provides less deterministic write times....

Furthers the model that "Cache is the new RAM, RAM is the new disk, disk is the new tape", especially big capacity ones like this.

ADDED: to get the most out of these drives, their non-atomic write nature needs to be exposed, here's a USENIX item on all that: http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/solutions-content/i...

rartichoke · on Sept 10, 2013

I wish HD manufacturers would try to innovate the technology rather than give us more space.

I have a 300gb drive and it still has 180gb free. I have a ton of stuff backed up too and quite a few large apps/games.

With more things being "stored on the cloud" it surprises me that HD manufacturers go after space instead of speed/reliability.

ctr · on Sept 11, 2013

That's exactly what they're doing with SSDs.

rartichoke · on Sept 11, 2013

The article says they are pushing for 20TB drives by 2020. That means they are saying 7 years from now we will be using the same technology but the drives will be larger. They are clearly talking about non-SSDs in the article.

SSDs are ok for now but they are still not even close to being reasonably priced. A 1TB SSD is like $650, completely gouged.