Topic: Petabyte hard drives - page 2. (Read 2909 times)
20TB seems great! I've been using 1TB for the last few years and have to constantly delete things to make room. I'm sure 10yrs from now a Petabyte will be necessary. Although I think file sizes (at least with movies and tv shows) are getting more compact these days. Most movies can be found in the 800mb range whereas they used to be 4GB. High resolution is still in the 4GB range, but that will eventually get trimmed down I'm sure.
hard drive storage has plateaued for a few years now.. we haven't seen much development.
I can assure you that the march toward higher areal densities continues unabated.
ETA: How long have 6TB HDDs been shipping again?
Since we're dealing with hardware we'll use the misleading 1000 TB = 1 PB instead of 1024 which is used for software.
Just. Stop.
Let me spool off rant # 34...
'Kilo' has _never_ been 1024. It has _always_ been 1000. All official standards organizations on the face of the planet (ANSI, ISO, IEC, BSA, NIST, ...) are united on this concept.
Mega has never meant 1024*1024 nor 1000*1024. It has _always_ been exactly 1,000,000.
Giga has never meant 2^30. It has always been 10^9.
And so on.
Lazy folk have perpetrated this mischaracterization so pervasively that the standards organizations needed to invent new units:
Kibi (Ki) - 2^10
Mebi (Mi) - 2^20
Gibi (Gi) - 2^30
Tebi (Ti) - 2^40
Pebi (Pi) - 2^50
and so on...
There is nothing misleading about saying '1PB = 1,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes'. It is misleading to say anything else.
If you want a shorthand way of saying 1*1024*1024*1024*1024*1024, you can say '1 PiB' (pronounced pebbee-byte). But you cannot say '1 PB' - because that is flat out incorrect.
The team over at Backblaze have put a ton of research into storage solutions and lay out their entire build process for a 180TB 4U Storage Pod for their datacenter. It's truly an interesting read. Obviously, you can purchase much larger drives to push the capacity limit but at a higher cost.
They claim their cost is about 8000 satoshi per gigabyte.
They claim their cost is about 8000 satoshi per gigabyte.
Sounds interesting.
What are big hard drives for? Excuse the drama but the iTunes cloud stores all music I have. Videos? I got a TV for that. 
Don't you love wasting 10 min for every 30 min video watching commercials though? Isn't it great that you pay for a service that's meant for entertainment that just serves you advertisements the entire time?
What are big hard drives for? Excuse the drama but the iTunes cloud stores all music I have. Videos? I got a TV for that.
The team over at Backblaze have put a ton of research into storage solutions and lay out their entire build process for a 180TB 4U Storage Pod for their datacenter. It's truly an interesting read. Obviously, you can purchase much larger drives to push the capacity limit but at a higher cost.
They claim their cost is about 8000 satoshi per gigabyte.
They claim their cost is about 8000 satoshi per gigabyte.
You can most certainly connect multiple drives to reach the capacity of 1 petabyte.
Since we're dealing with hardware we'll use the misleading 1000 TB = 1 PB instead of 1024 which is used for software.
Depending on brand hard drives can be bought for in the range of 40-70 dollars per TB
So it follows that you'd pay between $40,000 and $70,000.
Since we're dealing with hardware we'll use the misleading 1000 TB = 1 PB instead of 1024 which is used for software.
Depending on brand hard drives can be bought for in the range of 40-70 dollars per TB
So it follows that you'd pay between $40,000 and $70,000.
Right and don't forget to add in external costs. RAID Controllers, motherboards, and chassis aren't exactly free.
hard drive storage has plateaued for a few years now.. we haven't seen much development. maybe they're shifting more towards SSDs. i doubt in 2-3 years we'll see big jumps. we are seeing diminishing returns.
Especially PCIe SSDs, like in MacBooks
hard drive storage has plateaued for a few years now.. we haven't seen much development. maybe they're shifting more towards SSDs. i doubt in 2-3 years we'll see big jumps. we are seeing diminishing returns.
2-3 years from now.
16tb is probably the biggest you'll see in one drive these days:
http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Quadra-External-Drive-9000330U/dp/B00AJJIVPI
2-3 years from now.
we will see single petabyte drivers in futures
but not for now, TB is still consider big for data
except you collect BD ISO movie with no compressed, 1 TB only can store around 19 movies
and only use one of them for daily use
you do right thing to backup your data
but not for now, TB is still consider big for data
except you collect BD ISO movie with no compressed, 1 TB only can store around 19 movies
I actually prefer multiple smaller drives than one big one. Call me paranoid, but what if that ONE drive fails? I would loose everything!
I have a pair of external 500GB harddisk to hold all the photos I have taken. They are perfect duplicates and they are only half full. I have another pair of 8G USB flash drives to backup my 2GB of letters and documents. Summing all bits and pieces, I only have some 300G of data.
How do you guys fill multiple terabytes of hard drives? Do you ever delete stuff?
if your data is really valuable, you must have another external drive and store your data there I have a pair of external 500GB harddisk to hold all the photos I have taken. They are perfect duplicates and they are only half full. I have another pair of 8G USB flash drives to backup my 2GB of letters and documents. Summing all bits and pieces, I only have some 300G of data.
How do you guys fill multiple terabytes of hard drives? Do you ever delete stuff?
and only use one of them for daily use
you do right thing to backup your data
I actually prefer multiple smaller drives than one big one. Call me paranoid, but what if that ONE drive fails? I would loose everything!
I have a pair of external 500GB harddisk to hold all the photos I have taken. They are perfect duplicates and they are only half full. I have another pair of 8G USB flash drives to backup my 2GB of letters and documents. Summing all bits and pieces, I only have some 300G of data.
How do you guys fill multiple terabytes of hard drives? Do you ever delete stuff?
I have a pair of external 500GB harddisk to hold all the photos I have taken. They are perfect duplicates and they are only half full. I have another pair of 8G USB flash drives to backup my 2GB of letters and documents. Summing all bits and pieces, I only have some 300G of data.
How do you guys fill multiple terabytes of hard drives? Do you ever delete stuff?
i don't get why people have HD movies saved on their hard drives.. i hardly ever watch a movie more than once, so what would be the point? yet, as i'm saying this, i remember that i have some stuff backed up in my HDD. i don't have much though, maybe 30 gigs. i should probably delete them, as i'll never re-watch them anyways
porn, on the other hand, is something that you can re-watch and re-watch over and over
porn, on the other hand, is something that you can re-watch and re-watch over and over
You most have a lot of 4k porn DVDs extra high resolution almost like being there.
sweet jessus
do you realy need one ??
can't just buy multiple TB ?
what are you storing ? and how the hell you gonna back it up ? well I suppose you could have 2 of them... but yeah.. you really need it or a just to be cool factor ?
do you realy need one ??
can't just buy multiple TB ?
what are you storing ? and how the hell you gonna back it up ? well I suppose you could have 2 of them... but yeah.. you really need it or a just to be cool factor ?
Sure, but if you buy $40 harddrives you're going to be replacing at least 1 per day.
You can most certainly connect multiple drives to reach the capacity of 1 petabyte.
Since we're dealing with hardware we'll use the misleading 1000 TB = 1 PB instead of 1024 which is used for software.
Depending on brand hard drives can be bought for in the range of 40-70 dollars per TB
So it follows that you'd pay between $40,000 and $70,000.
Since we're dealing with hardware we'll use the misleading 1000 TB = 1 PB instead of 1024 which is used for software.
Depending on brand hard drives can be bought for in the range of 40-70 dollars per TB
So it follows that you'd pay between $40,000 and $70,000.
Right now I have about 4 TB in use at home, but I could see where someone would want more. Of course at work I have much more than that.
what kind of stuff do you have in there? i have more porn than i could ever want, tv shows, music, and yet i still have 650GB to spare. are you just one of those data hoarders?
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