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The first 16tb hard drive?

AndreiArgeanu
By AndreiArgeanu
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Just seen this recently in my feed thought I'd show you. Screenshot_20190628_160834_com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.thumb.png.9b91b66905d093ec0f25e45509b39e1c.pngAre hard drives ever going to stop growing or are they actually near the end of their life? 

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HDD's are widely used in servers and surveillance storage because of their high storage capacity for a low price point.

I only see them ending when you can get an SSD with that much storage and not having it cost a fortune.

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6 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Are hard drives ever going to stop growing or are they actually near the end of their life?

Yes, there will come an end to them at some point. When? No one knows, but I'd assume at least ten more years.

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They're still very good for some purposes.

For example imagine a website with lots of images (imgur, facebook etc) or small clips (twitter, vine)

You can have images cached in various locatios depending on popularity (how often acessed)0

hottest = ram , next hottest =  ssd, less hot = hdd,  archival=tape drive

 

Anyway i think these are shingled ... which means slow  writes...

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