Harddrives to Hit 3TB Capacities By November
A TDK chart paves the road to 3 TB hard drives by November.
Softpedia reports that hard drive head manufacturer TDK released a chart revealing hard drive capacity updates for 2010. The chart indicates that-- for 3.5-inch HDDs--the company is moving from 500 GB per platter to 640 GB per platter.
This update means that hard drive manufacturers can now crank out HDDs with 2.5 TB storage capacities (using four platters), and five-platter HDDs offering a whopping 3 TB of storage.
The chart indicates that TDK plans to launch the update next month, with the new HDDs appearing on the market by November.
As for the smaller 2.5-inch form factor, hard drive manufacturers will be able to use the just-launched 375 GB platters as soon as this month. This will be a small bump up from the previous 320 GB platters, however storage makers will now be able to manufacture HDDs with 750 GB of storage using two platters.
According to TechConnect, 2.5-inch HDDs with 750 GB are expected to hit the market sometime this October. Still, with the release of SSDs, are mechanical drives a dying technology?
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I thought this was going to happen sooner, like Q2 this year or something.
And no, hard drives will be with us for some time yet unfortunately, NAS units are growing in popularity - along with people's media collections, especially now HD is mainstream. Not everyone has high storage requirements but a large percentage of people do, and SSDs aren't going to be able to catch up with either capacity or cost per GB of mechanical hard drives any time soon.
Sure they will replaces mechanical drives soon......I am going to replace my 10 TB mechanical server(£1000 worth of hard drives) with SSD's costing £16000....oh wait.......
I wouldn't say that HDDs are a dying tech either. Just last month I built a PC from scratch and I went RAID 0 HDDs rather than SDD with a HDD storage slave. The cost for SDD is still 2 HIGH.
I would think it will be 2012/13 before SSD's hit the system drive market with any real market share. But the mass storage market will be the domain of the HDD for at least 5-10 years.
when you say that in enland it works out that the 2tb hdd are 20gb per £1 so i dont think they will catch up nay time soon (16-18 on 1tb hdd)