Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
Posted by Kevin Horrocks on 03 July 2008 - 15:07 · 33 comments & 11313 views
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#1 Posted by C++ on 03 Jul 2008 - 15:21
- Of course they're pushing limits, Hitachi's storage division used to be IBM's storage division. And IBM is the ****.
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#2 Posted by hardgiant on 03 Jul 2008 - 15:47
- Oh no a 5TB DeathStar
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#2.1 Posted by Digitalfox on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:47
- It's like CPU's, first was the speed in Ghz, now is the number of cores and cache memory..
Next will be hard drives when they feel they can't push more GB for disk, they will focus on speed..
And I may be very wrong but I think in 3.5-inch size, there won't be much TB they can put in a drive.. Off course they may raise the physical size or just progress in speed.. -
#2.2 Posted by XerXis on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:49
- (Digitalfox said @ #2.1)It's like CPU's, first was the speed in Ghz, now is the number of cores and cache memory..
Next will be hard drives when they feel they can't push more GB for disk, they will focus on speed..
And I may be very wrong but I think in 3.5-inch size, there won't be much TB they can put in a drive.. Off course they may raise the physical size or just progress in speed..
you are very wrong if you think a few TB's are the limit
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#3 Posted by portauthority on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:05
- Gogo Hitachi! Best bunch of hard drives I've ever used...
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#4 Posted by Digitalfox on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:14
- Thank god..
Please introduce 10TB hard drives in 2012..
With Blue Ray disks of 25GB and in near future 50GB, how can somebody backup his movies..
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#5 Posted by tsupersonic on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:45
- I think they (and other HDD manufacturers) should start making more solid state (or hybrid drives for that matter) which hopefully will bring prices down.
HDD's are still good, but at this point, I feel we need speed over storage
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#6 Posted by IntelliMoo on 03 Jul 2008 - 17:02
- Gee, how about 1 TB SSD by.. NOW! heh
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#7 Posted by pyehac on 03 Jul 2008 - 17:53
- If I remember correctly, 10 years ago, 5gb drives just came out.
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#7.1 Posted by Angel Blue01 on 03 Jul 2008 - 22:50
- No, 10 years ago they had the 8GB drives.
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#8 Posted by 3rd impact on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:22
- imagine how long would one defragment a 5tb drive...will i leave it defragmenting for the weekend?
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#9 Posted by Tager on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:23
- nice... even more data to lose if the HDD fail!
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#9.1 Posted by +stevember on 03 Jul 2008 - 19:35
- My immediate thought...
Second thought was just more storage for porn.
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#10 Posted by Lowdown on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:23
- I think the increase in drive space is great but I can just hear the tech support calls from the noobs that don't backup. "Um, yeah like my computer doesn't say I have a hard drive and like I had all my music from like 5 decades on there and all these videos, it was a few Terabytes." We'll need some other good formats out to backup all this massive amounts of information.
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#11 Posted by cold-peak on 03 Jul 2008 - 19:11
- What ordinary person needs this? I store my music, games and pictures on 1 hdd and its only 80gb! Still have 20gb left!
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#11.1 Posted by Airlink on 03 Jul 2008 - 22:56
- Speak for yourself. I've got 600 GB of NAS storage and I need more. As a matter of fact, I'm heading down to the store not to pick up a pair of 1TB drives.
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#11.2 Posted by RAID 0 on 04 Jul 2008 - 00:00
- (Airlink said @ #11.1)Speak for yourself. I've got 600 GB of NAS storage and I need more. As a matter of fact, I'm heading down to the store not to pick up a pair of 1TB drives.
So if you're NOT going to pick up a pair of 1 TB drives, what are you going to pick up? -
#11.3 Posted by Airlink on 04 Jul 2008 - 01:01
- Sorry, somehow I inserted a "not" in there. I do believe I need more coffee.
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#12 Posted by Drimacus on 03 Jul 2008 - 19:12
- They should make the hard drives more reliable and resistant to mechanical failures instead of focusing solely on storage capacity...... i'm tired of having to replace at least one of my hds every 1.5-2 years.
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#12.1 Posted by +stevember on 03 Jul 2008 - 19:38
- I'm sure they are.
Also technically bigger means a lot less wear.
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#13 Posted by WolfDV on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:18
- I can't wait to make a nice raid array out of a few of these
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#13.1 Posted by Skynetfuture on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:31
- (WolfDV said @ #13)I can't wait to make a nice raid array out of a few of these
lol 1TB is overkill
5TB SSC overkill edtion IMO
2X 5TB HDD Raid0 will be ****** insane speedwise/storage i guess i will be really tidy to have em in raid5 -
#13.2 Posted by WolfDV on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:59
- (Skynetfuture said @ #13.1)(WolfDV said @ #13)I can't wait to make a nice raid array out of a few of these
lol 1TB is overkill
5TB SSC overkill edtion IMO
2X 5TB HDD Raid0 will be ****** insane speedwise/storage i guess i will be really tidy to have em in raid5
thats what I was thinking
5 x 5TB Raid5 = 20TB of redundant usable space. Thats a lot of data, Hell just one of these drives alone is more than my current raid5 array (5 x 1TB = 4TB unformatted redundant space) -
#13.3 Posted by SHS on 03 Jul 2008 - 22:49
- (Skynetfuture said @ #13.1)(WolfDV said @ #13)I can't wait to make a nice raid array out of a few of these
lol 1TB is overkill
5TB SSC overkill edtion IMO
2X 5TB HDD Raid0 will be ****** insane speedwise/storage i guess i will be really tidy to have em in raid5
1TB is way to small for the Media Server folk, We need lots of room for SD/HD, DVD Rips, BluRay Rip Video
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#15 Posted by TRC on 04 Jul 2008 - 17:12
- I've still got an old Circuit City sales paper advertising 1GB hard drives, 1GB!! I remember looking at it the morning it came and thinking how incredible that was and how I'd probably never need or be able to afford such a massive drive.
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#15.1 Posted by jafoman on 05 Jul 2008 - 06:31
- (TRC said @ #15)I've still got an old Circuit City sales paper advertising 1GB hard drives, 1GB!! I remember looking at it the morning it came and thinking how incredible that was and how I'd probably never need or be able to afford such a massive drive.
An ad? I actually bought a Micropolis 1GB drive for $999. I ran a BBS in the early 90s...
The drive was a 5.25" full height (two drive bays!) drive... I think I still have it somewhere. LOL.
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#16 Posted by Doom1468 on 05 Jul 2008 - 09:35
- Excellent.
I plan for a new PC in 2010/11/12 so this'll be a nice addition
Not close to using my current 250GB so that'll be massive.
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#17 Posted by burfadel on 09 Jul 2008 - 19:09
- With hard drives, the performance is directly related to the density and speed of the drive. The denser the platter inside the drive, the faster the drive will be. The most dense platters now are around 334GB, so 1TB drives are made up of 3 platters. Actually most use 4 platters and some even use 5! (which is bad for heat). So, if the limit for each platter is 1gb, that gives you 5gb with 5 platters. Now performance wise, there will only be so much data underneath the head on each rotation, and drives are already tweaked fairly well for performance, so performance won't leap that much above the very latest current technology (like supposedly the new 32mb cache twin processor WD drives coming out). The only way to increase performance above this is to increase the rotation speed, we may see slighly faster drives but the faster they spin the more power they use, which is a big issue these days. We probably wouldn't have seen 10,000rpm drives, but if efficiency wasn't such an issue we may have seen say 8400rpm drives by now

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Hard drive specialist Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is continuing to push HDDs to the limit, with a strong emphasis on increasing capacity and with a clear goal in mind.
The space will be achieved using 'current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistance', or in short, CPP-GMR.
CPP-GMR pushes data density above 1TB per square inch, a long-awaited threshold that promises drives many times larger than those available today.