Fujitsu is always talking up this or that hard drive technology that's totally going to revolutionize the industry and so on, but at least this time around they've got some "solid" numbers.
Based on "areal density" technology, with Fujitsu claiming that a new vertical magnetic recording tech based on crystalline magnesium oxide allows them to sense even smaller magnetic pits, thereby allowing them to squeeze more data into each square inch. Fujitsu was promising 1TB per square inch a few months back, but it seems now they'll settle for 500-800GB per square inch -- which translates to a roughly 500 percent capacity increase -- and should be shipping samples out in a couple years.
Start planning now how to best fill a 5TB drive.
News source: engadget
Based on "areal density" technology, with Fujitsu claiming that a new vertical magnetic recording tech based on crystalline magnesium oxide allows them to sense even smaller magnetic pits, thereby allowing them to squeeze more data into each square inch. Fujitsu was promising 1TB per square inch a few months back, but it seems now they'll settle for 500-800GB per square inch -- which translates to a roughly 500 percent capacity increase -- and should be shipping samples out in a couple years.
Start planning now how to best fill a 5TB drive.
News source: engadget
Porn?
pshh... comcast kicks people off for downloading 100GB (combined down/up actually) they'd never let you get anywhere near that... once you hit that limit its one warning, second time its you are off their network for a year...
i could not fill that if i tried i dont think and i have alot of stuff.
but the bottom line is... i would rather have a sh*tload of extra space than run out of it.
right now i have a total of 850GB hdd space... which i dont think ill run out of to soon... i got roughly 150GB left it's filling up somewhat quick but there is alot of stuff i could delete rather quickly if i had to.
but seriously... these bigger and bigger hard drives are mainly only for people who download mass ammounts of stuff.... cause the average pc user that downloads mainly mp3's and general use stuff... they wont really need more than probably 200GB tops.
The "average consumer" will need tons of space. I did some PC maintenance on a friends computer and it was loaded with junk. There were several dozen copies of the same files spread everywhere. He's still on dialup and uses AOL and there were 15 copies of that. He thinks he put whatever he wants on there and it will never fill up. 160gig HD with XP and 256megs RAM no doubt.
This look more like a 25TB HD since there's multi plater nowaday...
Hopefully with this new tech and a higher track density, drive speeds should increase substantially. Any word on wether this will also be built into 2.5" drives. As the desities increase and cooling is harder, etc. I see 2.5" drives becoming the norm in desktops.
Hitachi will be the first to break the 5TB mark. Just like every other major space or rotation speed barrier in the past few years, in both desktop and mobile platforms.
Hitachi's storage division is what used to be IBM's storage division. And IBM is king.
A good-quality video can be done at about 8Mb per minute, probably less.
5,000,000Mb / 8Mb per minute = over 434 days of non-stop high definition porn.
I think it will have to come with a voucher for some sort of repair surgery afterwards though,
everyones gonna go "OMG I WILL NEVER FILL THAT", then after a while it wont be enough o_O
i could have use for that...
than again id prolly just go get 2 2TB drives and put em into RAID-1...
so much data needs serious safety from headcrashes, wrong sectors, ...
Glassed Silver:mac
100% is the max.
I think personally a 60gb is maximum for a hard drive externally, then plug in a few usb hd's for your downloads, pron, movies, backups etc.
Thats what I like to do.
Wha?
5 TB is 5 times as much as 1 TB, so it's 500% of 1 TB.
That means you either:
-Increase it by 400% (1 TB +400%*1 TB)
-Multiply it by 500% (1 TB*500% = 5 TB)
Wha?
5 TB is 5 times as much as 1 TB, so it's 500% of 1 TB.
That means you either:
-Increase it by 400% (1 TB +400%*1 TB)
-Multiply it by 500% (1 TB*500% = 5 TB)
You cannot actually multiply percentages by numbers to get terabytes that way (as percentages are units). To convert percentages into a unitless number that can be multiplied, you need to multiply it by 1/(100%), then you can multiply by the result to get your desired result.
That should be:
"Fujitsu plans to boost HDD capacity to 500% in two years"
If Fujitsu was to increase hard drive capacity by 500% in two years, two years from now, we would be seeing 6TB hard drives instead of 5TB hard drives. When you increase something by something, you already have the 100% there, so you subtract that from the percentage to which it is increased to get the percentage by which it is increased.
By - shows there is going to be progression.
By - shows there is going to be progression.
The former says that the increase will be 500%, meaning 5TB will be added to the existing 1TB top capacity of hard drives today. The latter says that in two years, the capacity will be made 500%. Saying that "to 500%" does imply that there will be no further increases and the "in two years" implies that the "to 500%" means that there will be no further increases in that timespan beyond what was stated, saying nothing about what will happen afterward.
As for implying progression, only verbs can imply progression as a result of the conjugation, prepositions are neutral in this respect. Namely, only the imperfect, present progressive and future progressive tenses imply progression, nothing else does.
Anyone remember when having a 20 MB hard drive was bad ass?
Back then, 1 GB was an unconceivable amount of space.
And now people post "Start planning now how to best fill a 5TB drive", like it would be something special in the all to near future...
Last edited by JJ_ on 14 May 2007 - 00:41
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