Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by mrpg on Friday December 09 2016, @07:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the plenty-of-room-for-pr0n dept.

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:10PM (#439427)

    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

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 09 2016, @10:37PM (#439451)

    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.