Seagate will have 14TB and 16TB hard drives in 18 months

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I can remember when my first Monster PC and a 16GB HDD. Also when i bought a 1TB HDD and others thought i was insane. I currently use a 5TB external HDD. In 2013 Seagate had a goal of hitting 20TB by 2020 now in 2017 they are at 10TB. with 14 and 16TB in the next 18 months. HDDs have lost ground to SSDs but they are still the best bang for your buck. For gamers this may be overkill but there are other markets such as DVRs and NVRs also video surveillance to name a few.

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Planetary

16TB does seem like a lot. But with all the pics and vids that everyone takes with their 12 mega pixel camera phones, I can see how people will need the space.  Hard drives have to keep up with the ever increasing file sizes that we get from new tech. 


They should focus on speed and reliability more than capacity. A failed harddrive is a nightmare.


Solar

Might need to pick this up down the line to store them data. Heh.



Kuang Grade Mark Eleven

I already own a 8TB Seagate HDD (14TB storage total).  The new drives would come just in time to replace my old ones.


As a word of warning: All of these super high (for now) capacity drives achieve this density because of SMR.

The catch is that SMR doesn't work with RAID; they aren't good with sustained writes and from what I can see that also includes RAID-1 (MIRRORING).

What I do myself is buy a pair of drives at the "sweet spot" of pricing and just use mirroring. Sure, I lose 1/2 the overall drive capacity but I know my data is safe with minimal effort. If a drive dies, I go out and buy two new ones and the survivor becomes an offsite backup.

See:

http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb