I'm still surprised 4TB mechanical drives are still up there in price, especially when SSD drives are getting larger and larger.

 

I suspect we will begin to see drive prices drop with the introduction of 10 TB drives now, although it will take some time. Here in Canada I have seen 4TB drives go on sale for $139 and even stayed at $159 for awhile before going back up to $179.

I suspect we will begin to see drive prices drop with the introduction of 10 TB drives now, although it will take some time. Here in Canada I have seen 4TB drives go on sale for $139 and even stayed at $159 for awhile before going back up to $179.

Still far cheaper than a 4TB SSD 

I suspect we will begin to see drive prices drop with the introduction of 10 TB drives now, although it will take some time. Here in Canada I have seen 4TB drives go on sale for $139 and even stayed at $159 for awhile before going back up to $179.

Still far cheaper than a 4TB SSD

 

I'd like to see the drop in price quicker, that's all. I've seen 8GB pass me by, I've seen 10GB pass me by and the ol' 4TB still being milked by WD.

 

The old rules are changing.  Moore's law is in jeopardy, and lack of competition doesn't help.

 

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2465841/moores-law-to-be-revoked-in-five-years-time

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1498750/computers-will-use-more-electricity-than-the-entire-world-can-generate-by-2040-tech-experts-claim/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1498750/computers-will-use-more-electricity-than-the-entire-world-can-generate-by-2040-tech-experts-claim/

 

I wouldn't give much credence to anything written in that infamous sensationalist rag, in which something as mundane as the truth has never been allowed to get in the way of a story whose twin aims are to provoke a reaction and to sell copy.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1498750/computers-will-use-more-electricity-than-the-entire-world-can-generate-by-2040-tech-experts-claim/

 

I wouldn't give much credence to anything written in that infamous sensationalist rag, in which something as mundane as the truth has never been allowed to get in the way of a story whose twin aims are to provoke a reaction and to sell copy.

 

Exactly anything owned by Rupert Murdoch will have some agenda behind the propaganda he spews! 

Computers will use more power than world can generate really!!  So what about aircraft carriers doing 12 inches to a gallon of fuel theres energy consumption if ive ever seen it http://www.edie.net/blog/MPG-of-an-aircraft-carrier/5343565

 

a bit off topic i know 

4TB drives hold price because they are already damn cheap (<$25/TB). There is a significant install base, so they wont go the way of the 3TB as fast as the 5TB and 6TB.

 

As far as the other articles, seems those sources don't understand the paper. http://www.semiconductors.org/main/2015_international_technology_roadmap_for_semiconductors_itrs/

 

First the roadmap is only the plan, and only out to 2030, not 2040.

 

Moore's law, depending on what you think it is, has already been broken, or has a very long way to go. The transistors and connections will continue to increase thanks to 3d semiconductors. Compute power will continue to increase as a result. New technologies keep giving it life. It is not unusual to say by 2030 something new will be required to go further. To be on topic, in the disk drive world, things like SMR and HAMR.

 

The processor design game has been processing power per watt for several years new. And energy production continues to climb. The combined chart may show an intersection, but again, that is meanly to point out the area for new development. I'd like to see the chart of the total solar energy reaching the planet consumed by computers by 2040, and supporting math.

 

As for aircraft carriers, no recent constructed aircraft carrier runs on oil.

 

 

As for aircraft carriers, no recent constructed aircraft carrier runs on oil.

 

lol no they are nuclear, but the point is the amount of energy needed to move an object of that mass just one inch. Wether it is oil or nuclear power it needs alot. I bet a nuclear reactor from an aircraft carrier could power alot of computers!!