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Western Digital has announced a 12 terabyte helium-filled hard disk drive, as well as an upcoming 14 TB shingled magnetic recording HDD. The 3.5" 12 TB drive contains a whopping eight 1.5 TB platters, and does not use shingling:
HGST's Ultrastar He12 HDDs use speedy PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) technology in tandem with eight platters to provide a beefy 12TB of capacity. The 7,200-RPM HDD provides solid performance measurements of 243 MiB/s of sustained sequential performance and 390/186 read/write IOPS at QD32. The helium-infused HelioSeal design allows the drive to scale to eight platters and provides a 2.5 million hour MTBF. [...] The hits don't stop at 12TB; the company also has a 14TB SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) HDD on its immediate roadmap.
WD also announced an Ultrastar 8TB SN200 SSD, and confirmed that it is working on QLC NAND SSDs that store four bits per cell. Micron also announced an 8 TB (7680 GB) SSD this week.
Also at The Register.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @07:38PM
I mean how much do you need?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 09 2016, @07:43PM
16 TB, and additional 16 TB drives for RAID?
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Snotnose on Friday December 09 2016, @07:49PM
Hell, 16 TB can't even hold the porn starring your mom.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:54PM
Dammit, my mother is not on the cover of crack whore magazine!
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday December 10 2016, @12:09AM
Damn, my funny comment got modded funny. I was expecting insightful.
Soylent needs to tell us who modded what how, cuz it's a crapshoot now.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday December 11 2016, @01:36AM
Heh, somebody modded this +1 informative. I'd like to know who the soylenter is who's mom has been in 16 TB of porn.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 09 2016, @07:51PM
8K 3D porn does take a lot of space. I'm glad they're saving room by making easily-compressed audio.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by takyon on Friday December 09 2016, @07:54PM
You need at least 8K-16K res (4320p/8640p) to do an accurate characterization of the physics of cum droplets.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:24PM
And diagnose what those sores are. I once saw a porn with this woman who had open sores all around her pussy. So yea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:38PM
You'd think they would at least airbrush over what I hope are pimples on a number of the women's buttocks/thighs.
I mean who watches porn to be reminded of what actual sex with average people is like? :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @10:05AM
And yeast, don't even mention yeast!
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Saturday December 10 2016, @09:32AM
It's not just about pixels, you need a high framerate also.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:10PM
I heard they compress the plot and the story line. You wouldn't believe how small it can get.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday December 09 2016, @10:37PM
You gotta feel bad for today's teenagers, in a sense.
Old porn set up expectations at realistic-if-big sizes and 5-to-10-minutes romps in shaded areas, while newer porn mandates pro-grade stamina, skills, and aryan-dreams physical attributes. And looking good while doing it under bright lights needed for high resolution.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Friday December 09 2016, @08:25PM
Well in neuroimaging with functional analyses on large projects? Alot. My little projects with 200 subjects gets close to 3 Tb on its own. So for a server cluster hosting a whole department's analyses, for example, you might need 50Tb or more.
subicular junctures
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @09:39PM
I currently have about 35 TB in movies. (bluray/DVD) ~3k in ripped discs. That is 10 4TB HST drives. With about 4TB remaining in usable space.
With the 8TB SSD I could have half that and 1/10th the power usage, one less synology box, and 1000x the performance.
With the 14TB drives I could have 56TB usable in half the space or 112TB usable in the same space.
Yes there are use cases out there for this. Not all of them porn.
I do however like how they neatly did not say the price. Meaning it is retarded.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 10 2016, @03:13AM
If it follows the pattern of previous helium-filled drive releases, it is for datacenters and not the general public.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @01:45PM
I currently have about 35 TB in movies.
(...)
Yes there are use cases out there for this. Not all of them porn.
Right, right, of course. Is your movie folder named "Definitely not porn"?
:)