Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010

Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010

Horrocks on 03 July 2008 - 15:07 · 34 comments & 20534 views

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Hitachi has announced plans to have a commercial 3.5-inch hard drive on the market that can hold 5TB. They hope for this to be available by 2010.

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.

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#1 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 ****.

(2 replies) #2 hardgiant on 03 Jul 2008 - 15:47

Oh no a 5TB DeathStar

PS: Make em faster, they are big enough already.

#2.1 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 XerXis on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:49

(Digitalfox said @ #2.1)

you are very wrong if you think a few TB's are the limit

#3 portauthority on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:05

Gogo Hitachi! Best bunch of hard drives I've ever used...

(1 reply) #4 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..

#4.1 Beastage on 09 Mar 2009 - 12:10

What?! first of all you don't need pure 50GB bluray, no one sane can notice or care about the difference between 50GB bluray and any high quality HD codec like H.264.

1TB hdd can store ... lots of such movies.

#5 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

(1 reply) #6 IntelliMoo on 03 Jul 2008 - 17:02

Gee, how about 1 TB SSD by.. NOW! heh

#6.1 SHS on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:27

(IntelliMoo said @ #6)

Gee, how about 1 TB SSD by.. NOW! heh

Do you got ton of cash for BiTMICRO Altima E3S320

(1 reply) #7 pyehac on 03 Jul 2008 - 17:53

If I remember correctly, 10 years ago, 5gb drives just came out.

#7.1 Angel Blue01 on 03 Jul 2008 - 22:50

No, 10 years ago they had the 8GB drives.

(1 reply) #8 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?

#8.1 atari800 on 04 Jul 2008 - 17:55

I already do that for my 1 TB raid
So I am thinking - defrag in a work-week (?!?!?!?!!

(2 replies) #9 Tager on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:23

nice... even more data to lose if the HDD fail!

#9.1 +stevember on 03 Jul 2008 - 19:35

My immediate thought...

Second thought was just more storage for porn.

#9.2 Jugalator on 04 Jul 2008 - 08:08

Yes, it's getting more and more important to back up things. At this scale, I'd buy them in pairs, one as the backup. They're quickly getting so cheap anyway.

#10 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.

(4 replies) #11 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!

#11.1 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.

#11.2 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 Airlink on 04 Jul 2008 - 01:01

Sorry, somehow I inserted a "not" in there. I do believe I need more coffee.

#11.4 RAID 0 on 04 Jul 2008 - 04:43

(Airlink said @ #11.3)

Sorry, somehow I inserted a "not" in there. I do believe I need more coffee.

I was just messin with ya.

(1 reply) #12 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.

#12.1 +stevember on 03 Jul 2008 - 19:38

I'm sure they are.

Also technically bigger means a lot less wear.

(3 replies) #13 WolfDV on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:18

I can't wait to make a nice raid array out of a few of these

#13.1 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 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 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

#14 stezo2k on 04 Jul 2008 - 08:07

Sweet

ive gotta get me one of those

(1 reply) #15 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.

#15.1 jafoman on 05 Jul 2008 - 06:31

(TRC said @ #15)

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.

#16 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.

#17 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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