you might only need the free version in a few years...

[Brian B.]

Seagate's now talking about the next advancement in HD technology, promising 6TB 3.5" drives when it ships, up to 60tb 3.5" drive within 10years.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/19/seagate.hamr.to.surge.drive.storage.in.years/

[jamerson9]

Oh nice, waiting a month for a preclear to finish. 

 

Just hope that I/O speeds/technology increase hand in hand with capacity.

[Helmonder]

Seagate's now talking about the next advancement in HD technology, promising 6TB 3.5" drives when it ships, up to 60tb 3.5" drive within 10years.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/19/seagate.hamr.to.surge.drive.storage.in.years/

 

By that time the latest GoldRay dvd's will 200 gigs per dvd movie, so no problem, still need lots of drives :-)

[Brian B.]

Nah, Blu ray is end of the line technology. mp4.265, increasing bandwidth, etc will all readily carry today's video content. Of course, we may yet get true holographic movies, and maybe holographic storage (movies on a sugar cube? yes please.) This will of course lead to Hollywood once again trying to sell us the same damn movies... again. Hey. Lucas needs your money, so you'll buy the holographic version of star wars, and like it!

 

A few years ago, when 100GB HD's were still being dreamed about, I remember reading an interview with a Microsoft storage /file system engineer, he said that moving forward, because of data transfer speeds increasing slower then capacity, hard drives would have to be dealt with as incredibly large tape drives, with instant seek access times. Seems we are moving ever closer to that.