TDK is promising 15TB drives next year

[WereCat]

Japan company TDK presented on technological event Ceatec in Japan their new heads for drives with HAMR technology which should allow to create 3.5" HDDs witch 15TB capacity between year 2015-2016.

 

Technology HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) is a technology that magnetically records data on high-stability media using laser thermal assistance to first heat the material. HAMR takes advantage of high-stability magnetic compounds such as iron platinum alloy. These materials can store single bits in a much smaller area without being limited by the same superparamagnetic effect that limits the current technology used in hard disk storage. This is achieved by heating the materials before applying the changes in magnetic orientation.

 

 

SOURCE: http://dsl.sk/article.php?article=16175

 

 

YAY! 15TB drives ... and I am still unable to fill my 2TB one. I hope that we will get SSDs with this capacity shortly after too.

 

[biFanBoy]

I'm not sure if I've heard about this before, or it was a 10TB..

[Thorium19]

Well, that's my p0rn collection sorted for the next decade.

Damn, 15tb is massive, I don't think I could actually fill that even if I tried. If they carry on developing these, then all the better, as it means we may feel the benefits lower down the chain in larger storage drives becoming slightly cheaper.

[WereCat]

I'm not sure if I've heard about this before, or it was a 10TB..

It was 10TB.

 

Well, that's my p0rn collection sorted for the next decade.

Damn, 15tb is massive, I don't think I could actually fill that even if I tried. If they carry on developing these, then all the better, as it means we may feel the benefits lower down the chain in larger storage drives becoming slightly cheaper.

Imagine if you need to run defragmentation on that thing ..

[Guest]

Want!

[TroubleKlef]

Are there any negatives to having such large capacities on a single disk?

 

I imagine performance may suffer since the HDD literally has to dig in deeper to find information due to how densely packed it is. I could be totally wrong though.

[jurian123]

To many TB man. No one can fill up 15TB (or 10TB).

[foxhound590]

To many TB man. No one can fill up 15TB (or 10TB).

i have filled 10TB in my rig and loony has way more than 10

[Sidiox]

i have filled 10TB in my rig and loony has way more than 10

Looney  is nuts . Also I can quite easily fill my 4Tb in drives and then I have the rest of my network. If I'd have a higher DL speed I could easily fill 10TB+. Again I'd like to know the read/write speeds on these stupid capacity drives. And I'd love to see 4Tb drives become cheaper because of this. Might pick a few up for my servers then.

[jurian123]

i have filled 10TB in my rig and loony has way more than 10

With what, your biggest "private" film collections?

[Priller]

I was putting 3TB reds in my server then stopped so I could switch to 4 but never got around to it because 6TB drives got released.  I guess I will have to wait alittle longer for the 10TB versions of Reds.....

[BWSSoldya]

I'm pretty sure these drives, if they actually pull it off, will cost a-lot of money. I'm guessing these will be enterprise / company orientend. So don't get your hopes up for 15 TB Drives for 100 bucks.

[GeathX]

Are there any negatives to having such large capacities on a single disk?

 

I imagine performance may suffer since the HDD literally has to dig in deeper to find information due to how densely packed it is. I could be totally wrong though.

 

From what I'm aware of its actually the opposite effect, as density increases, so does transfer speeds. The arm reader assembly thing (yep ) scans more data per rotation of the disk so its able to read/write faster. Think that is why HDD performance has slowly increased over the years because of just greater densities. But again I could be wrong too

[wpirobotbuilder]

Are there any negatives to having such large capacities on a single disk?

Yes.

 

Right now, bit error rates for non-enterhave an upper bound of 1 per 12.5TB of data read. Meaning that if you tried to read a full drive, you would start to have serious concerns about either getting corrupted data or outright failing to read some file from the disk. This won't be as much of an issue with enterprise drives with TLER running in a redundant configuration.

[dlf]

I think most of what's on steam is around 16 TB. So one of these, plus another 3+ TB could easily be enough for stema.

[patrickjp93]

Are there any negatives to having such large capacities on a single disk?

 

I imagine performance may suffer since the HDD literally has to dig in deeper to find information due to how densely packed it is. I could be totally wrong though.

Data loss being massive makes porting a backup to a new 15TB drive take forever. Spinning rust needs to up and die for everyone but datacenter people.

[patrickjp93]

Yes.

 

Right now, bit error rates for non-enterhave an upper bound of 1 per 12.5TB of data read. Meaning that if you tried to read a full drive, you would start to have serious concerns about either getting corrupted data or outright failing to read some file from the disk. This won't be as much of an issue with enterprise drives with TLER running in a redundant configuration.

That's funny given Google doesn't even use enterprise equipment in its data centers (Quoting Doctor Keith Frikken, former Miami University professor and current DBA at Google).

[Spongy141]

I'm pretty sure these drives, if they actually pull it off, will cost a-lot of money. I'm guessing these will be enterprise / company orientend. So don't get your hopes up for 15 TB Drives for 100 bucks.

No, but other drives will start to go down in price.

[TheMcSame]

Damn, 15tb is massive, I don't think I could actually fill that even if I tried. 

It seems like a lot but a few years down the line we will be asking ourselves how we lived using single digit TB drives.

[EChondo]

Damn, 15tb is massive, I don't think I could actually fill that even if I tried. If they carry on developing these, then all the better, as it means we may feel the benefits lower down the chain in larger storage drives becoming slightly cheaper.

I could easily. Movie collection consisting of Blu-Ray and DVD's, then music collection, then anime, then TV shows, etc.

 

I'm breaking at 8TB already, need more drives!

[-TesseracT-]

Imagine having one of those in like a small form factor PC.

[Pugs501]

I could easily. Movie collection consisting of Blu-Ray and DVD's, then music collection, then anime, then TV shows, etc.

 

I'm breaking at 8TB already, need more drives!

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Priller]

I could easily. Movie collection consisting of Blu-Ray and DVD's, then music collection, then anime, then TV shows, etc.

 

I'm breaking at 8TB already, need more drives!

 

Same here. I have about half of that and started to redo my server as it continues to grow. Doing the math for $ per TB make 3TB reds look real good but now plans have changed to 11 6TB reds in a Raid 6. It makes since for the size of my case and they are cheaper then 4TB Red Pros at the same capacity. It's still 3200 dollars in HDDs tho.....

[Toddwjp]

this in a 2 bay nas = storage and data back up 

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Same here, I'm close to 7TB right now on my 12TB NAS, and I am about to push it well beyond 8TB (about to open and rip the entire Sopranos Blu-Ray boxset)