engadget.com — record-breaking 421Gb/in? data density, which should allow for 500GB 2.5-inch notebook drives, 2.5TB 3.5-inch desktop drives, and 1-inch to 1.8-inch consumer electronics drives that can store between 40GB and an impressive 275GB, starting in 2009.
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pyrothermSep 18, 2006
s**t, screw reliability, RAID-5 it!!
settraSep 18, 2006
Haha, I meant with the records in density going up, a hard drive the size of the mini's would be able to hold 3TB ;)
orbatosSep 18, 2006
3 double sided platters on a 1.8" drive would suffice perfectly at this density.
waterdragonSep 18, 2006
There will be limits, of sorts, eventually. e.g. ...an ipod that can hold more music than you are able to listen to in an entire lifetime.
doublebackslashSep 18, 2006
@bennyboy371Backup software?For a home user Ntbackup is fine (start->run->ntbackup)For a FOSS system...Don't get me started on paying for backup software.As far as the backup hard drive is concerned: If you can't afford to loose the data you have to find a way to afford the backup. No Two ways about it. Buy two smaller drives and upgrade later.And, just to head the RAID folks off, RAID is not a replacement for backups; backups are not a replacement for RAID. One protects your up time, the other allows recovery from other failures (such as human failure, to not delete their home directory)
ebfoxbatSep 18, 2006
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! whats the R/W error rate at those densities?
jugalatorSep 18, 2006
"2.5TB drives?, I wonder how reliable they are."As reliable as current drives, and drives the past decade or so? :-/Is there any reason to believe reliability would noticeably decrease in 2009?
wunchSep 18, 2006
The Wikipedia entry on perpendicular recording lists an upper limit of around 1Tbit per square inch, citing an article by Kryder, "Magnetic recording beyond the superparamagnetic limit".