Get ready for 20TB hard drives
New technology that relies on the same compound found in table salt will allow hard drives to quintuple storage capacities. The most recent hard drive put out by Seagate is 4TB in size, so we can expect 20TB hard drives using this new method. Researchers claim the increase in size is because of further enhancements in data density technology.
These improvements will allow users to store massive amounts of music, videos, pictures and more, but the main improvement will be for data-heavy businesses, such as hosting companies, cloud-based storage, professional media editors and producers as well as musicians. Lower costs and much larger storage will continue to lower overhead while increasing productivity.
Desktop hard drive platters and heads.
It used to be that to store such a large volume of data, one would need a server with many, many hard drives tied together. With single drives offering the same capacity storage can be moved from the server directly to the workstation, providing a significant improvement in the speed at which data is accessed — all at lower costs.
Users may have to wait a few years before they can get the new drives, however, as the development and production processes kick in to full gear.
