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: 5, Funny) by Snotnose on Friday December 09 2016, @07:49PM
Hell, 16 TB can't even hold the porn starring your mom.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(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.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(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.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.