What's new and upcoming in regards to hard drives/storage?

[seven89]

Hey folks,

Anyone know whats on the horizon in regards to new fangled forms of hard disc storage? I remember reading something about liquid cooled drives, but never saw anything else about them (could be because I havent' been looking). With the new 100 gig+ monster drives out now, where is the industry going to go from there? Faster drives, or larger capacities? Is there anything coming up that looks worthwhile and is it worth it to wait a bit until "new" technology hits?

 

[Vehementi]

I've heard rumors about massive amounts of non-volatile (like SRAM) memory being used in HDD's. Even if these do sometime come out the first models will be dreadfully expensive :disgust: but also VERY fast, completely silent and not susceptible to much chance of hardware failure. They'll only begin to be used in servers, where it will replace SCSI as the leading very fast but very expensive storage interface. Then sometime later on a few cheaper home models will start to be made; and IDE will go out the window if those begin to hold on. But meanwhile, some companies are still making IDE drives as a supremely cheap method of storage, although not half as fast or reliable as non-volatile. And IDE drives will actually make sound...:Q

And they already have liquid cooled drives, actually liquid cooled racks for drives in liquid cooled cases.

Just my $.02 forecast

 

[bizmark]

serial ATA

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[Maverick2002]

I've heard rumors about massive amounts of non-volatile (like SRAM) memory being used in HDD's. Even if these do sometime come out the first models will be dreadfully expensive but also VERY fast, completely silent and not susceptible to much chance of hardware failure. They'll only begin to be used in servers, where it will replace SCSI as the leading very fast but very expensive storage interface. Then sometime later on a few cheaper home models will start to be made; and IDE will go out the window if those begin to hold on. But meanwhile, some companies are still making IDE drives as a supremely cheap method of storage, although not half as fast or reliable as non-volatile. And IDE drives will actually make sound...

Are you talking about SSDs? Those things run a few grand each for about 4gb of storage. Sure they're blazing fast (and silent, since there aren't any moving parts), but hardly worth it. SATA will be the next "big" thing.

 

[rimshaker]

Serial ATA and BMR technology.

These 2 technologies will hold us up for quite a long time again. So forget about those optical/holographic storage ideas for a while. While you've heard of GMR (giant magnetoresistive), the new upcoming BMR (ballistic magnetoresistive) method should take hard drive storage to the 100's of terabytes region.

 

[zephyrprime]

Not much really. I don't have much hope for solid state storage in the foreseeable future.

Seagate's developed a heat assisted magnetic storage technology that helps combat the superparamagnetic effect. This plus several other things means we won't have to worry about capacity for a long time. But access speeds are still slow. Personally, I think they will read and write from multiple heads simultaneously in a few years. That's my prediction.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: rimshaker
Serial ATA and BMR technology.

These 2 technologies will hold us up for quite a long time again. So forget about those optical/holographic storage ideas for a while. While you've heard of GMR (giant magnetoresistive), the new upcoming BMR (ballistic magnetoresistive) method should take hard drive storage to the 100's of terabytes region.

Serial ATA (and it's sucessor, Serial ATA 2) are what I'm looking forward to.

I don't know what BMR is, but just the name scares me. The only HD company I heard use GMR (or at least mention it in marketing) is IBM, and their drives are so prone to failure that they actually have exited the HD market ...

 

[zephyrprime]

I believe that all the modern drives use GMR now.