How long before we see 1000 terabyte drives

[Golgatha]

Spinning drives - Never

Solid state drives - Lord willing, within my natural lifetime.

 

[Blain]

Who said anything about 300TB per platter? Did you read the article I linked?

:$ no

 

[thelastjuju]

Probably never.

With more people streaming video and audio than ever before, and assuming that trend will continue on.. the need for ultra-large capacity hard drives will probably only exist at the enterprise level in the future.

I often get the impression I'm one of the very few people in the world that actually record HDTV content and rip blurays.. and this is where you start to require multiple TB's.. an uncompressed Planet Earth series BR rip would weigh in well over 100GB for example.

I'll be thrilled when we finally get a 3 or 4 TB drive with a solid track record.. :whiste:

 

[Pariah]

I would say 1PB drives is far far out in the future. Could be borderlining to never.

HDs will "soon" die to SSDs. And SSDs wont end that big either, far from. Also I dont think 1PB is doable on a 3½" HD either for that matter.

Magnetic hard drives are not going anywhere, anytime soon. We'll see SSD's doing increasingly well in the mobile market, and starting to creep into the home PC market more in the years to come. But we will probably never see SSD's as the dominant mass storage medium for PC's, and certainly never in the enterprise market. Barring some technological breakthrough, it's not suited for such applications. Something will eventually replace magnetic storage for ultra high capacity storage, but it isn't going to be SSD's as we know them today.

 

[epidemis]

Dunno, I'd like radically larger drives. My current 1,5 isn't enough and I constantly have to delete games from steam.